. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . f quotation and comparison, and showsthereby goodly reading, though she lives six milesfrom the village library, and two of these six milesare private ways, one mile a driftway through thefields, and never broken out in winter by the is, of course, her only reading time. I notedin her house a surprising number of magazines andweekly papers, possibly not of the latest dates,which matters little — far more magazines, I amsure, than are read by the city dw
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . f quotation and comparison, and showsthereby goodly reading, though she lives six milesfrom the village library, and two of these six milesare private ways, one mile a driftway through thefields, and never broken out in winter by the is, of course, her only reading time. I notedin her house a surprising number of magazines andweekly papers, possibly not of the latest dates,which matters little — far more magazines, I amsure, than are read by the city dweller in general;far more than I read myself Her spelling is per-fection, like nearly all New Englanders of her gen- A Story of Four Dials 433 eration, whatever that may be — I am setting herage as sixty. She was educated at the district school,which was one of the unique microcosms of ournew-world life, the town-meeting being another.[ doubt whether the scholar received much morepersonal attention than in our graded schools to-day, but the district school somehow afforded ahappier education than is now given; for a good. Ancient Sun-dial(?). Owned by Author. all-around start in life, with an education enab-ling one to write a good letter and to enjoy a goodbook, I know nothing that can at all compare withthe schooling of the district school. It had itsfaults, but they were not so great for their place andtime as are the faults of the present graded district school turned out such pupils as AddyDean; doubtless nearly all children are better schol-ars, further advanced, in our public schools to- 2F 434 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday- day than she was at their age. But what I questionis, will they be as good scholars as she is when theyare her age ? I am sure they cannot love theirschools as she loves the memory of hers. Theywill have little to remind them of it. She has asorely worn dozen of school books — battered aswould be school books studied by five or si
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