. The land of heather . and talked of its various flowers, shrubs,and vegetables, and the richness of the heather honey/that his bees made. When at length I said good-by,*I left him with real regret, his hospitality was so hearty,and he was so anxious all through to make my staypleasant. He was an easy-going little man, and histeaching was nothing to boast of Indeed, the schoolhad the air of a rather disorderly family, and the masterseemed more like an older child in control than themiddle-aged man that he was, making teaching in thislonely Highland valley his life-work. Still, whateverthe tea
. The land of heather . and talked of its various flowers, shrubs,and vegetables, and the richness of the heather honey/that his bees made. When at length I said good-by,*I left him with real regret, his hospitality was so hearty,and he was so anxious all through to make my staypleasant. He was an easy-going little man, and histeaching was nothing to boast of Indeed, the schoolhad the air of a rather disorderly family, and the masterseemed more like an older child in control than themiddle-aged man that he was, making teaching in thislonely Highland valley his life-work. Still, whateverthe teachers faults, his heart was right, and there wassomething about the school and its ways in their un-conventional simplicity that attracted one. A Country School 221 I shall probably never see that out-of-the-way glenagain, nor ever hear from it, but I shall never forgetthe kindly master and his little white schoolhouse, withthe big brown hills frowning and glooming down onit with every passing cloud-shadow. ^?^\ •i.
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