I have always tried to teach my people that some provision for bathing should be a part of every house.
For some time, while a student at Hampton, I possessed but a single pair of socks, but when I had worn these till they became soiled, I would wash them at night and hang them by the fire to dry, so that I might wear them again the next morning.
The charge for my board at Hampton was ten dollars per month.

I was expected to pay a part of this in cash and to work out the remainder.

To meet this cash payment, as I have stated, I had just fifty cents when I reached the institution.

Aside from a very few dollars that my brother John was able to send me once in a while, I had no money with which to pay my board.

I was determined from the first to make my work as janitor so valuable that my services would be indispensable.