. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. 152 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD As we enter the schoolroom we see the master at a rude desk in a corner. He is engaged in mending pens. They are NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. 11 of goosB quiUs and to be able to put a neat point onthem is one of his valuableaccomplishments. On thedesk is a sand box. Blot-ting paper is unknown, andto dry the ink some blacksand is poured upon it outof pin holes in the sandbox. The older childrenwho have need to writehave long desk
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. 152 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD As we enter the schoolroom we see the master at a rude desk in a corner. He is engaged in mending pens. They are NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. 11 of goosB quiUs and to be able to put a neat point onthem is one of his valuableaccomplishments. On thedesk is a sand box. Blot-ting paper is unknown, andto dry the ink some blacksand is poured upon it outof pin holes in the sandbox. The older childrenwho have need to writehave long desks in frontof them, while the youngerare seated on benches withno backs. Perhaps thewriting lesson comes first,in which case the masterproduces some slips of paperneatly written with suchsentences as, Commandthe mind and then the pen; and these the scholars copies the teacher would take with him if he went toanother school. The reading lesson maybe from the English Reader, or fromWebsters Spelling Book, or, perhaps,from the New England Primer, in whichlast the younger scholars learned to re-member the alphabet by such verses andpictu
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