I pity the man or
woman who has never learned to enjoy nature and to get strength and
inspiration out of it.
Aside from the large number of fowls and animals kept by the
school, I keep individually a number of pigs and fowls of the best
grades, and in raising these I take a great deal of pleasure. I think
the pig is my favourite animal. Few things are more satisfactory to
me than a high-grade Berkshire or Poland China pig.
Games I care little for. I have never seen a game of football.
In cards I do not know one card from another. A game of old-fashioned
marbles with my two boys, once in a while, is all I care for in this
direction. I suppose I would care for games now if I had had any time
in my youth to give to them, but that was not possible.
CHAPTER XVI
EUROPE
IN 1893 I was married to Miss Margaret James Murray, a native of
Mississippi, and a graduate of Fisk University, in Nashville, Tenn.,
who had come to Tuskegee as a teacher several years before, and at the
time we were married was filling the position of Lady Principal. Not
only is Mrs. Washington completely one with me in the work directly
connected with the school, relieving me of many burdens and
perplexities, but aside from her work on the school grounds, she
carries on a mothers' meeting in the town of Tuskegee, and a
plantation work among the women, children, and men who live in a
settlement connected with a large plantation about eight miles from
Tuskegee.
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