. 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. rvane ofTHE Old High School,Court Square, Show-ing Bullet , Three Feet. Dozen books to carry, Dinner basket a great umbrella, On our way to miles an hour Railroad cars do go;Mercy! dont we beat em Wading through the snow? Falling into snowdrifts. Dropping every all the cookies And the pie we took;Feet and fingers frozen. Patience nearly so;Aint it awful funny Wading through the snow ? Opposite the ars
. 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. rvane ofTHE Old High School,Court Square, Show-ing Bullet , Three Feet. Dozen books to carry, Dinner basket a great umbrella, On our way to miles an hour Railroad cars do go;Mercy! dont we beat em Wading through the snow? Falling into snowdrifts. Dropping every all the cookies And the pie we took;Feet and fingers frozen. Patience nearly so;Aint it awful funny Wading through the snow ? Opposite the arsenal Half-past eight we see;Goodness! we must hurry. Else, tardy we shall we set to running Fast as we can two steps and tumble Headlong in the snow. Finally we halted At the schoolhouse our journey ended, And our danger oer;So with joyful faces Up the stairs we go;Think again youll catch us Wading through the snow f OLD TIME SCHOOLS 155 It was years after that the same girl described her Hfe inone of the grammar schools in some verses, from which thefollowing are taken, called A TRIBUTE TO AN OLD TEACHER g%^€^:^ ^^Sf. Our memory wakes, and we recallThe little, dreary, sandy yard. The schoolroom with its dingy wall,The straight-backed benches, stiffhard; and The songs, long since, gone out of which the schoolroom used to ring; And the old-fashioned book and , we remember everything. But over all has come a change:This is an unfamiliar place; The only thing that is not strangeIs our beloved teachers face. Oh, could we take our dusty once more trudge away sit beneath those gracious looksThat softened een the strictestrule,
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