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Rh new home. On this farm were four buildings. The "big house" had been burned, but there was left standing a little cabin, formerly used as a dining room, an old kitchen, a stable, and a henhouse. Booker Washington and his growing school moved into these four buildings.



The buildings were thoroughly cleaned and worked over and put in as good condition as possible. Washington says, "I recall one morning, when I told an old colored man who lived near, and who sometimes helped me, that our school had grown so large that it would be necessary for us to use the henhouse for school purposes, and that I wanted him to help me give it a thorough cleaning out the next day, he replied, in a most earnest manner, 'What do you mean, boss? You