. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. FANNING AWAY THE CHAFF. out. Then the straws were gathered up andtaken away. The wheat and chaff were thrown up into theair while two men fanned away the chaff with asheet, and the wheat fell to the ground. Some-times, instead of using a flail, horses were drivenover the wheat to thrash out the grain. We felt rich when we were able to have alittle wheat bread! We thought it so fine thatwe called it cake. Grandfathers Story. 117 VI. SCHOOLS. I wish that I could let my little friends peepinto the schoolhouse of my boy days. Twomiles from our home wa
. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. FANNING AWAY THE CHAFF. out. Then the straws were gathered up andtaken away. The wheat and chaff were thrown up into theair while two men fanned away the chaff with asheet, and the wheat fell to the ground. Some-times, instead of using a flail, horses were drivenover the wheat to thrash out the grain. We felt rich when we were able to have alittle wheat bread! We thought it so fine thatwe called it cake. Grandfathers Story. 117 VI. SCHOOLS. I wish that I could let my little friends peepinto the schoolhouse of my boy days. Twomiles from our home was a little log cabin thathad once been used as a dwelling, but was nowour schoolhouse. We followed a blazed paththrough the forest to reach THE BLAZED PATH THROUGH THE WOODS. This means that little pieces of bark had beencut off some of the trees along our way. Whenwe saw such a mark in a tree we went towardit. Then we looked for the next tree that was blazed, and so on. In this way we were guidedto our schoolhouse. What an odd little house it would seem to you! 118 Stones of Pioneer Life. It had a stick chimney, clapboard roof, a greasedpaper window, and puncheon floor. Inside, theseats were placed around three sides of the fireplace was in the fourth side. The teacher, or master, as we called him, satin the middle of the room. On one side of theroom was a kind of shelf made of a puncheon,and high enough to write upon. In front of thiswas a bench made also of a puncheon. Thiswas the seat for the big scholars. When theywished to write they turned their backs towardthe teacher and wrote upon the shelf. On two sides of the room were benches madefor the little children. They did not need anydesk. Of course, they cou
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