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that city the donors seem to feel, in a large degree, that an
honour is being conferred upon them in their being permitted to
give. Nowhere else have I met with, in so large a measure, this
fine and Christlike spirit as in the city of Boston, although
there are many notable instances of it outside that city. I
repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of
giving. I repeat that the main rule by which I have been guided
in collecting money is to do my full duty in regard to giving
people who have money an opportunity for help.
In the early years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or
travelled country roads in the North for days and days without
receiving a dollar. Often as it happened, when during the week I
had been disappointed in not getting a cent from the very
individuals from whom I most expected help, and when I was almost
broken down and discouraged, that generous help has come from
some one who I had had little idea would give at all.
I recall that on one occasion I obtained information that led me
to believe that a gentleman who lived about two miles out in the
country from Stamford, Conn., might become interest in our
efforts at Tuskegee if our conditions and needs were presented to
him. On an unusually cold and stormy day I walked the two miles
to see him.
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