Here our books were furnished us, and we cooked our own victuals.

We lived upon a dollar a week each.

Our diet was strong, but very plain; mush and molasses, pork and potatoes.

Saturdays we took our axes, and went into the woods and cut cord-wood.

During vacations we labored in the harvest-field, or taught a district school, as we could.
"Yonder," said he, pointing to a beautiful valley, about two miles distant, "stands the school-house where Garfield first taught school.