History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . Home cm? Thomas W. Bicknell,Providence, R. J. Wannamoisett Lodge, Linekin, Home 1893. Bicknell Genealogy 475 town-people could afford and smart was the pupil of 18 whohad ciphered through square root, conquered Websters spellingbook and could parse, To see the sun is pleasant. I dont re-member when I could not read, write, spell and recite the tables
History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . Home cm? Thomas W. Bicknell,Providence, R. J. Wannamoisett Lodge, Linekin, Home 1893. Bicknell Genealogy 475 town-people could afford and smart was the pupil of 18 whohad ciphered through square root, conquered Websters spellingbook and could parse, To see the sun is pleasant. I dont re-member when I could not read, write, spell and recite the tablesin arithmetic, and, acting perhaps on my mothers ambition forher baby, my father sent me to private school, taught in otherparts of the town. I think that Rev. Francis Wood, an ex-minister and later a private teacher in Barrington, suggested thatI study Latin, and, at the age of thirteen, I bought a copy ofAndrews and Stoddards Latin Grammer, with money obtainedby the sale of clams which I dug on our own shore and sold attwenty-five cents a bushel. I got on in fine style with the declensions and when I was asked one morning on my way to school, by anold farmer, what good Latin would be to me, I replied, modestly,that I thought it would help me to know the
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