The farm-yard club of Jotham: . s of theirown school days, the tearful complaints of their children,the character of too many of the teachers, combined withthe impression that school-keeping was an occupation takenup by those young men who were either unwilling to workor unable to get their subsistence in any other calling, allunited to chafe and fret the practical and hard-workingfathers, and to harden their hearts, and somewhat colortheir vision, towards the teacher and his calling. Ingalls had overcome all this. He began his work,the Monday after Thanksgiving, in accordance with
The farm-yard club of Jotham: . s of theirown school days, the tearful complaints of their children,the character of too many of the teachers, combined withthe impression that school-keeping was an occupation takenup by those young men who were either unwilling to workor unable to get their subsistence in any other calling, allunited to chafe and fret the practical and hard-workingfathers, and to harden their hearts, and somewhat colortheir vision, towards the teacher and his calling. Ingalls had overcome all this. He began his work,the Monday after Thanksgiving, in accordance with a cus- 114 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF JOTHAM. torn of New England as old as the festival itself, and hehad succeeded so well that his term had been prolongedby a unanimous vote of the committee to more than twiceits usual length. His experience had been had been selected by his father as the college-boy ofthe family, and had received from that good old man allthat could be possibly spared from his scanty income, even. THE DISTRICT SCHOOL-HOUSE. to the point of reducing his own wardrobe ; and he hadalso had bestowed upon him a pittance from the meagreallowance of his fond mother, whose heart warmed towardshim who was destined to carry the family name into someone of the learned professions, perhaps into the high publicservice of his country. He had fitted for college as besthe could, in the spare hours given him by his father fromthe work of the farm, for every moment of which his broth-ers had received some just consideration ; and he had re-ceived his final touches from the parish minister, who knewbut little Latin and still less Greek, but who was quiteupto the college requirements of that day. He was now aFreshman in Dartmouth, had entered college when butsixteen years old, filled with good resolutions, and with akeen sense of his obligations to those self-sacrificing par-ents who had sent him there. This business of school- FERTILIZERS. II5 keeping was a part of
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