CHAPTER IV.

HOW THE FIRST SIX YEARS AFTER GRADUATION FROM HAMPTON WERE SPENT.

Author Begins Teaching at Malden--Encourages His Pupils to go to Hampton--Helps His Brother John to Enter Hampton--Enters Wayland Seminary, Washington, D. C., and Spends a Year There--Stumps the State of West Virginia in the Interest of the Removal of the State Capital--Studies Law for a Short Time--Invited by Gen. Armstrong to Deliver the Graduate’s Address--Asked to Return to Hampton by Gen. Armstrong as a Special Student and to Take Charge of Night School--Accepts--The “Plucky Class"--In Charge of Indian Boys at Hampton--The Call from Tuskegee for Some One to Start a Normal School--Gen. Armstrong Recommends the Author--Author Accepts and Proceeds to Tuskegee.