. 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. s, if they crossthe marsh, they will flush a crane. A smithy had been built and a meeting-house, but as yet,after the lapse of forty years, there had been no read in the town records of no teacher paid by the there were, irregularly, dame schools, taught by somewoman, who like Goody TwoShoes, received her pay di-rectly from the most that the childrenlearned was probably readingand writing, and it was notcom
. 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. s, if they crossthe marsh, they will flush a crane. A smithy had been built and a meeting-house, but as yet,after the lapse of forty years, there had been no read in the town records of no teacher paid by the there were, irregularly, dame schools, taught by somewoman, who like Goody TwoShoes, received her pay di-rectly from the most that the childrenlearned was probably readingand writing, and it was notcommon for girls to some of the men, as a dame school. In other daysMiles Morgan, could not Our fathers leamed the horn-book and the rule, . ^ They toed the line .or topped the dunces stool; write. In 1675 there arrived An ancient dame presided as they read, And if they erred, her thimble rapped each head;in fhp tn-W7n nnP Daniel Each little girl a sampler made, in time,m ine town one l^dUiei ^^d wrought thereon her simple faith, in rhyme. Denton, who was qualified Esther w. Bates. to teach. He was at once employed for this purpose. He. da/r^&l^/l 38 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD wrote a fair hand and was chosen to write the records of thetown business. For a time he taught in a private a schoolhouse was built. It may seem strange that itwas placed on the upper Ferry lane, now Cypress street; butthe land was well taken up at the center of the village and then, again, the children would becoming from not only as far south asLong Hill or Longmeadow, but as far Atttograph of the First , ^^, . Schoolmaster, UOrth aS ChlCOpCC. After a while a rule was made that for every child in attend-ance the parent must furnish a load of wood for the school-house fires. It was a simple school, not of much value forolder boys and girls, perhaps. There was reading, writingand spelling, and perhaps some arithmetic; and if DanielDenton came from England, as perhaps he did, he had some-th
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