ry to take care of a young man,
eighteen years of age, who was insane. I went there and saw his father,
and he put him under my charge. I had the care of him four months, and
during the last two months of the time I traveled about with him,
and returned him, finally, to his friends in a materially improved
condition. The friends of another insane man in Montgomery, near
Newbury, hearing of my success with this young man, sent for me to come
and see them. I went there and found a man who had been insane seven
years, but who was quiet and well-behaved, only he was "out of his
head." I engaged to do what I could for him. The father of my Newbury
patient had paid me well, and with my medical practice and the sale of
medicines in traveling about, I had accumulated several hundred dollars,
and when I went to Montgomery I had a good horse and buggy which cost me
five hundred dollars. So, when my new patient had been under my care and
control two months, I proposed that he should travel about with me in my
buggy, and visit various parts of the State in the immediate vicinity.
His friends thought well of the suggestion, and we traveled in this way
about four months, stopping a few days here and there, when I practiced
where I could, and sold medicines, making some money. At the end of
this time I went back to Montgomery with my patient, as I think, fully
restored, and his father, besides, paying the actual expenses of our
journey, gave me six hundred dollars.

Returning to Sidney I learned that my first and worst wife was then
living with the children at Unadilla, a few miles across the river in
Otsego County. I had no desire to see her, but I heard at the same time
that my youngest boy, a lad ten years old, had been sent to work on a
farm three miles beyond, and that he was not well taken care of. I drove
over to see about it, and after some inquiry I was told that the boy
was then in school. Going to the schoolhouse and asking for him, the
school-mistress, who knew me, denied that he was there, but I pushed
in, and found him, and a ragged, miserable looking little wretch he was.
I brought him out, put him into the carriage and took him with me on the
journey which I was then contemplating to Amsterdam, N. Y., stopping
at the first town to get him decently clothed. The boy went with me
willingly, indeed he was glad to go, and in due time we arrived at
Amsterdam, and from there we went to Troy.

I had not been in Troy two hours