an opportunity for a good man at Newbury to take care of a young
man, eighteen years of age, who was insane. I went there and saw his
father, and he put him under my charge. I had the care of him four
months, and during the last two months of the time I traveled about
with him, and returned him, finally, to his friends in a materially
improved condition. The friends of another insane man in Montgomery,
near Newbury, hearing of my success with this young man, sent for me
to come and see them. I went there and found a man who had been
insane seven years, but who was quiet and well-behaved, only he was
"out of his head." I engaged to do what I could for him. The father
of my Newbury patient had paid me well, and with my medical practice
and the sale of medicines in traveling about, I had accumulated
several hundred dollars, and when I went to Montgomery I had a good
horse and buggy which cost me five hundred dollars. So, when my new
patient had been under my care and control two months, I proposed
that he should travel about with me in my buggy, and visit various
parts of the State in the immediate vicinity. His friends thought
well of the suggestion, and we traveled in this way about four
months, stopping a few days here and there, when I practiced where I
could, and sold medicines, making some money. At the end of this
time I went back to Montgomery with my patient, as I think, fully
restored, and his father, besides, paying the actual expenses of our
journey, gave me six hundred dollars.

Returning to Sidney I learned that my first and worst wife was then
living with the children at Unadilla, a few miles across the river
in Otsego County. I had no desire to see her, but I heard at the
same time that my youngest boy, a lad ten years old, had been sent
to work on a farm three miles beyond, and that he was not well taken
care of. I drove over to see about it, and after some inquiry I was