ut no place for them only to tie them in an open
shed. Our house is small but only three of us and four of you
perhaps we can get along." The doctor said, "We will stay." The man
was good but the accommodations were bad. The house was a small
one-roomed log cabin. Two beds and a narrow space between them fully
occupied one half of the floor space. A the other end of the room
was a large fireplace with a bright, cheerful, warm, comfortable
fire, so much so that we could sit back against the beds, which we
all did, and were comfortable except the woman of the house, who was
in one corner of the fireplace getting supper. I do not mean that
the woman was in the fire but nearby. You know that the Greek word
eis according to some theologians means nearby. But the bread in the
skillet was under the fire and over the fire for there were live
coals above it and live coals beneath it. The meat in the pan was on
top of the fire. I never ate better bread and meat. I was hungry.
After supper I began to wonder and worry about where I would sleep,
and one of mother's proverbs came to my mind, "Do not worry child,
God will provide." Then I remembered that God had provided for many
such occasions but he really did it through Mother.

Soon a little trundle bed was drawn from under one of the large beds,
and it just filled the space between the two larger beds. The little
boy of the house was put in the little bed and the good lady of the
house told me that I would have to sleep with the little boy in the
little bed. I said, "All right." An opportunity was given and I
retired. Although I was a boy under twenty I was several inches
longer than the bed, but I managed to get between the two end boards
and slept. Whether pushed under the larger bed during the night, I
know not. The next morning at daylight I was still between the two
big beds, but I had not grown in length any during the night the end
boards were in the way.

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C H A P T E R F I V E

From Lagrange to Lindley, continued. In a murderers bed.
Maple sugar. Philosophy and Morality. Dr. Elmore shot. More
philosophizing. Firsts. Baptist College. Pikes Peak or Hell.

I got up early and took a walk, (the weather had moderated) to see
the world. I felt just a little bit homesick. The next evening we
stopped for the night at a large public house and they put me in a
large upper room where a murderer had slept the night before. I
slept.