. Highways and byways of the South. r,so that the fire could not have warmed the room veryeffectively. However, school did not keep in thewinter. The single yearly term was four months longand began the first Monday in August. The lastteacher had been a young woman from Shelly salary was twenty dollars a month and out ofthis she paid a dollar a week for board. I thoughtshe probably helped with the housework at her board-ing-place to get so low a rate, but Andy said, No,all she done was her own washing and ironing onSaturdays. She brought a chair from home for her personal useat the sc
. Highways and byways of the South. r,so that the fire could not have warmed the room veryeffectively. However, school did not keep in thewinter. The single yearly term was four months longand began the first Monday in August. The lastteacher had been a young woman from Shelly salary was twenty dollars a month and out ofthis she paid a dollar a week for board. I thoughtshe probably helped with the housework at her board-ing-place to get so low a rate, but Andy said, No,all she done was her own washing and ironing onSaturdays. She brought a chair from home for her personal useat the schoolhouse, the building not being providedwith any such luxury, and she took the chair back withher at the end of the term. The last day had been agreat occasion, and the mountain folks all turned outto the exhibition. The children trimmed the room In the Tennessee Mountains H5 with greenery and made a Httle bower in one cornerand carpeted the floor in that corner with soft this forest carpet they stood when they said their. A Woodland Schoolhouse speeches. The scholars numbered twenty-seven andnot much spare space was left in the shack for visitors,yet some contrived to squeeze in along the walls and 146 Highways and Byways of the South the rest peered through the breaks and the add to the attraction of the exercises one moun-taineer brought his fiddle and another a banjo and played some nice music. Of all I saw in my wanderings among the GreatSmokies nothing remains more vivid than the remem-brance of that woodland schoolhouse and of the lastday as described by Andy Hudnut. How picturesquethat gathering in and about the little building musthave been, and how strikingly the interest manifestedshows the charm that education has for the mountainpeople ! VI THE BIRTHPLACE OF LINCOLN
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