sure, indirectly. I could perhaps start
him somewhat in penciling, thus leading his mind to a practical
knowledge of making the sketches and outlines of what he would wish to
paint. This idea he grasped with avidity, commencing, in a drawing-book
that I furnished him, on simple outlines, thence to shading, and finally
to foliage, showing as good improvement as is usually found in our
schools. And this exhibited the more talent in him from the fact that I
could give only a few general hints at the work, from what I had
gathered by hearing teachers when directing their pupils. Hence, when
coming to difficulties, he was left to work upon them as best he could,
till conquered.

Having a work on Perspective, from which I had gained a few ideas, I
gave him some hints on that. But we had nothing to practice upon but the
inside of the prison, the walls and windows. He labored somewhat on the
idea of the vanishing point, and that of the diminution of the angle of
vision as distance increases.

Thus, the reader will see, our school took a somewhat wide range. I
would interest the mind, so far as could be, in what would profit, and
thus beget a love for truth and turn the attention away from wrong. With
the wholesome ideas gathered in these studies, I would also inculcate
the moral, to elevate the thoughts and heart to the truly good. Here, I
constantly kept in view the idea of the best interest of the prisoner
and the State.

This labor was most fatiguing. Standing there at the cell doors with no
means of sitting, I would, at times, become so completely exhausted as
to be obliged to retire to rest a while. Then, taking the air from the
cells would occasionally be most repulsive and injurious to health, the
whole weakening to the system.

I attempted to have a short school exercise with the females twice a
week, but word soon came that they could not be spared for that, and the
effort was abandoned. The pupils did as much, perhaps, as could
rationally be expected, under the circumstances. Could we have had the
school in the chapel, greater results would have crowned our efforts,
with much less labor.

Though I was wholly cut off at first from having an evening school in
the chapel, near the latter part of January, the warden informed me that
I might have one there on Thursday evenings, if I would give up the
prayer meeting, but not to begin till warmer weather. I could not harbor
the idea, for a moment, of relinquishing the