daughters was not well, so I feeling that I would be better to come home
they got ready and come on home, and I left them and went to my home
where I could rest. In the Fall I was so much better that I was able to
go back out West and take up my work again. When I had finished my
public school I taught a pay school for the Summer and had a large
number of scholars, and they progressed well. Some of them would go
without their food all day to study extra lessons.

It would be all of a joy to the whole world to have seen how well all of
the girls, boys, young men and young ladies did in all of the schools
where I have had the pleasure of teaching.

I have never taught in any school with any other teacher or teachers,
and I was so much more blessed, for all teachers have a way of their
own. The new teacher always makes so much change in a school and in the
pupils, I found that to do good work in school I should stay long in one
place, that I might bring the scholar near to me. Sometimes I have had
it rough, but in it all I can see the hand of God leading me to do all
that I could to help forward the great cause of education in those parts
where there was so much need.

I have just learned that the Rev. J. D. Fulton has had a stroke and I
cannot tell how he is at this time, but I can not do any work until I
hear from him, as I have had my mind on him for some time, as he was
somewhere in Massachusetts and I had not heard from him for some time.
The last time that I heard from him he was not well, and I knew that he
was so great for working that I feared he would break down.

So I wrote to Mrs. Wamsley, his daughter, and shall wait to hear how he
is, for I know she will let me know at once as she is there with her