Chapter 10

THE SOLDIER SCHOOL-MASTER.

From boy to man.--The Lyceum debate.--Willard speaks for the slave.--Entrance to the State Normal School.--Reverses.--Fighting the world again.--Assistance from fair hands.--Willard meets Allen Barringer.--John Brown, and what Willard thought of him.--Principles above bribe.--Examination.--A sleepless night.--Haunted by the "ghost of possible defeat."--"Here is your certificate."--The school at Schodack Centre.--At the "Normal" again.--The Edwards School.--Thirty pupils at two dollars each.--The "soldier school-master."--Teachers at East Schodack.--The runaway ride.--Good-by mittens, robes and whip!--Close of school at East Schodack 102