The District School As It Was

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: J wilds of barbarism will they wander, into what pits of ignorance fall, without the aid of the Only Sure tJuide to the English tongue. CHAPTER IV. FIRST WINTER AT SCHOOL. How I longed for the winter school to begin, to which I looked forward as a relief from my do-nothing days, and as a renewal, in part at least, of the soft and glowing pleasures of the past summer. But the schoolmaster, the thought of him was a fearful looking for of frowns and ferulings. Had I not heard our Ben toll of the direful punishments of the winter school; of the tingling hand, black and blue with twenty strokes, and not to be closed for a fortnight from soreness? Did not the minister and the schoolmaster of the preceding winter visit together at our house, one evening, and did I not think the schoolmaster far the more awful man