I can remember the winter when he came home after the summer's service there.
He had the chills all that fall and winter, yet he would shake and get his lessons at home; go over to the school and recite, and thus keep up with his class.

The next spring found him weak from constant ague.

Yet he intended to return to the canal.
"Here came the turning-point in his life.

Mr.Bates, who taught the school, pleaded with him not to do so, and said that if he would continue in school till the next fall he could get a certificate.

I received a certificate about the same time The next year we went to the seminary at Chester, only twelve miles distant.