. The adventures of two Alabama boys . HOW I BEGAN TO LECTURE,. HE following is about theway I tell it: The story I am to tellrelates my own personaladventures, which I often toldaround the fire-side, with no dream ofits ever assuming the shape of a lec-ture. My old friend. Col. J. T. Mur-fee, President of Howard College,insisted that I should turn it into a lec-ture. My reply was: Some day, whenI nave time, I may sit down and writeit out, dressing it up with beautiful lan-guage, weaving in some poetry, and thenbranch out as a full fledged lecturer. I69 suppose the leisure time never wouldhave
. The adventures of two Alabama boys . HOW I BEGAN TO LECTURE,. HE following is about theway I tell it: The story I am to tellrelates my own personaladventures, which I often toldaround the fire-side, with no dream ofits ever assuming the shape of a lec-ture. My old friend. Col. J. T. Mur-fee, President of Howard College,insisted that I should turn it into a lec-ture. My reply was: Some day, whenI nave time, I may sit down and writeit out, dressing it up with beautiful lan-guage, weaving in some poetry, and thenbranch out as a full fledged lecturer. I69 suppose the leisure time never wouldhave come and probably the lecturenever been delivered but for a fool-hardy spell that possessed me on one oc^casion when I was in Mt. Sterling, brother said: Our Baptist youngpeople want you to deliver a are going to be here several you not do so? And I promptlysaid **Yes. The next question was:What is the name of the lecture? Ihad never thought of that before, but Iblurted out: How a boy got throughthe Lines to the Confederacy. Howmu
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