. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . s are the sons of their fathers, for theyworry the high-school teachers very much as their ancestors usedto worry the teachers of the district schools. Display of smart- 29 • « A BOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE ness and insubordination is still altogether too common in NewEngland schools. Aside from the hilly and mountainous regions, the countryschools all have their regular winter term, that begins the firstweek in December. Soon alter eight oclock each school-daymorning the children tie up their ears, put on their cloaks andmittens and overshoes,
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . s are the sons of their fathers, for theyworry the high-school teachers very much as their ancestors usedto worry the teachers of the district schools. Display of smart- 29 • « A BOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE ness and insubordination is still altogether too common in NewEngland schools. Aside from the hilly and mountainous regions, the countryschools all have their regular winter term, that begins the firstweek in December. Soon alter eight oclock each school-daymorning the children tie up their ears, put on their cloaks andmittens and overshoes, and, with their sleds dragging behind, gostubbing along through the snow toward the schoolhouse. Those. The HoRsE-siiiiDs on Sunday who come from more than half a mile have in hand their tindinner-pails ; and, on stormy days, even the child that lives justacross the road feels abused if it cannot carry its dinner. The more advanced children of the outlying districts of a town I. WINTER LIFE «IN NEW ENGLAND have a long ride before them each winter morning to the academyat the Centre, a distance of perhaps three or four miles. Theygo in all kinds of weather. Neither storm nor cold can keep themat home. It sends a sympathetic shiver through one to look outand see them dri\-e jxist in the gray frostiness of the early morn-ing. The case seems plainly one of getting etlucation under difih-culties. But they know how to bundle up ; and if there is hardshij:),they seem not to realize it. Perhaps they are even to be experience gives them hardiness; and the long th-i\es backand forth, with whatever they contain of storms and cold and mis-haps, will in after life be among the most pleas
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