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"One of the girls gave it me in exchange for a stick of slate pencil. She said she got it from the missionaries she went to their night-school for a lark and they gave her it and a pair of boots as well." "And you have been reading it?" "Yes, Benjy," said Esther meekly. "You naughty girl! Don't you know the New Testament is a wicked book? Look here!
"Of the Academy," said Trove. "An', I make no doubt, o' good hope," the tinker added. "Let me stop one o' the clocks so I may not forget the hour o' meeting a new friend." Darrel crossed the room and stopped a pendulum. "He would like to join this night-school of ours," Trove answered. "Would he?" said the tinker. "Well, it is one o' hard lessons.
Jack found that, as he expected, his friends Harry Shepherd, Bill Cummings, and Fred Wood, would be glad to attend a night-school, and to work in earnest; for the example of what Jack had done for himself, even so far as they knew, had excited a strong desire for improvement among them.
I had difficulty often in securing a satisfactory teacher. Sometimes, after I had secured some one to teach me at night, I would find, much to my disappointment, that the teacher knew but little more than I did. Often I would have to walk several miles at night in order to recite my night-school lessons.
The night-school student, perhaps, because of greater maturity in years and experience, may be relied upon to apply himself with the utmost diligence to his academic studies; so, in much less than half the time-allotment, he advances in his academic studies about half as fast as the day-school student.
That decided me I would give it up and try to follow some rational occupation among the people I knew best, and to whom I could be of most use. I have come home; and this is how I mean to carry out my plan. I shall keep a school as near to Egdon as possible, so as to be able to walk over here and have a night-school in my mother's house.
I prayed over the matter till finally I gave myself, heart and mind, to whatever place should call me. During my last year at Tuskegee I was made a substitute salaried teacher in the night-school. My financial burdens were now lifted and my school life became one great pleasure. Toward the end of my Senior year I decided to try for the Trinity Prize of $25 for the best original oration.
After a student had been in the night-school long enough to prove what was in him, I gave him a printed certificate which read something like this: "This is to certify that James Smith is a member of The Plucky Class of the Hampton Institute, and is in good and regular standing." The students prized these certificates highly, and they added greatly to the popularity of the night-school.
You shouldn't say it." "Well, we'll leave that out," said Yeobright. "But anyhow God has set a mark upon me which wouldn't look well in a love-making scene. I have two ideas in my head, and no others. I am going to keep a night-school; and I am going to turn preacher. What have you got to say to that, Humphrey?" "I'll come and hear 'ee with all my heart." "Thanks. 'Tis all I wish."
My own experiences in the night-school gave me faith in the night-school idea, with which, in after years, I had to do both at Hampton and Tuskegee. But my boyish heart was still set upon going to the day-school, and I let no opportunity slip to push my case.
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