Old-time schools and school-books . Peter Parley. 116 Old-time Schools and School-books ., . bleak and desolate. Loose, squat stone walls, withinnumerable breaches, inclosed the adjacent fields. A fewtufts of elder, with here and there a patch of briers andpokeweed, flourished in the gravelly soil. Not a tree, how-ever, remained, save an aged chestnut. This, certainly, hadnot been spared for shade or ornament, but probably becauseit would have cost too much labor to cut it down ; for itwas of ample girth. The schoolhouse chimney was of stone, and the fire-place was six feet wide and four deep.
Old-time schools and school-books . Peter Parley. 116 Old-time Schools and School-books ., . bleak and desolate. Loose, squat stone walls, withinnumerable breaches, inclosed the adjacent fields. A fewtufts of elder, with here and there a patch of briers andpokeweed, flourished in the gravelly soil. Not a tree, how-ever, remained, save an aged chestnut. This, certainly, hadnot been spared for shade or ornament, but probably becauseit would have cost too much labor to cut it down ; for itwas of ample girth. The schoolhouse chimney was of stone, and the fire-place was six feet wide and four deep. The flue was soample and so perpendicular that the rain, sleet, and snowfell directly to the hearth. In winter the battle for life withgreen fizzling fuel, which was brought in lengths and cutup by the scholars, was a stern one. Not unfrequently the. School in The Malte-Brun School Geography, 1831. wood, gushing with sap as it was, chanced to let the fire goout, and as there was no living without fire, the school wasdismissed, whereat all the scholars rejoiced. I was about six years old when I first went to teacher was Aunt Delight, a maiden lady of fifty,short and bent, of sallow complexion and solemn aspect. The District Schools 117 We were all seated upon benches made of slabs — boardshaving the exterior or rounded part of the log on one they were useless for other purposes, they were convertedinto school benches, the rounded part down. They hadeach four supports, consisting of straddling wooden legs setinto auger holes. The children were called up one by one to Aunt Delight,who sat on a low chair, and required each, as a preliminary, to make his manners, which consisted of a small, suddennod. She then placed the spelling-book before the pupil,and with a pen-knife pointed, one by one, to the
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