. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . PHIA As I have already said, we could read and write atthat time, thanks to our parents; but it seemed as ifwe should be able to learn a great deal more regardingsuch things at a regular school, therefore it was that wewere willing to spend sixteen shillings. Enoch Flowers house was by no means the mostcomfortable in town, and we were forced to sit on short lengths of stoutlogs, when, with alittle labor, benchesmight have beenmade, for of averity there was an ample supply ofraw material at hand. , ?> ~v> The school hourswere from eigh
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . PHIA As I have already said, we could read and write atthat time, thanks to our parents; but it seemed as ifwe should be able to learn a great deal more regardingsuch things at a regular school, therefore it was that wewere willing to spend sixteen shillings. Enoch Flowers house was by no means the mostcomfortable in town, and we were forced to sit on short lengths of stoutlogs, when, with alittle labor, benchesmight have beenmade, for of averity there was an ample supply ofraw material at hand. , ?> ~v> The school hourswere from eight in the morning until twelve at the afternoon the teacher gave all his attentionto spinning, for he was a master hand at such work,and thus we lads found plenty of time for homechores and as much of sport as we really needed. We each read aloud one page from the Bible, oras much from the laws of Pennsylvania as wouldamount to the same in number of words, and theteacher carded wool meanwhile, in order that histime might not be wholly ENOCH FLOWERS SCHOOL 123 Then, with half a clapboard held on our knees asa desk, we wrote twenty lines from either the laws,or the Book, if so be we had brought with us enoughof paper to contain them, for it was not in the bargainthat Enoch Flower should provide us with anythingsave a smoothly sanded board on which we couldwork out the sums in arithmetic that lie made up topuzzle us. We spent the greater portion of our time figuring onthe number of pounds of wool required to make anhundred skeins of yarn, or the wages of a spinner forso many hours at such an amount per skein. But
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