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THE DISTRICT SCHOOL AS IT WAS
BY ONE WHO WENT TO IT



EDITED BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON

LEE AND SHEPARD
BOSTON



MDCCCXCVII

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.








Contents

Introduction
I.
The Old School-house
II.
First Summer at School — Mary Smith
III.
The Spelling-book
IV.
First Winter at School
V.
Second Summer — Mary Smith again
VI.
Third Summer — Mehitabel Holt and Other Instructresses
VII.
Little Books presented the Last Day of the School
VIII.
Grammar — Young Lady's Accidence — Murray — Parsing — Pope' s Essay
IX.
The Particular Master — Various Methods of Punishment
X.
How they used to read in the Old School-house in District No. V
XI.
How they used to spell
XII.
Mr. Spoutsound, the Speaking Master — the Exhibition
XIII.
Learning to write
XIV.
Seventh Winter, but not Much about it — Eighth Winter — Mr. Johnson — Good Order, and but Little Punishing — a Story about Punishing — Ninth Winter
XV.
Going out — making Bows — Boys coming in — Girls going out and coming in
XVI.
Noon — Noise and Dinner — Sports at School — Coasting — Snow-balling — a Certain Memorable Snowball Battle
XVII.
Arithmetic — Commencement — Progress — Late Improvement in the Art of Teaching
XVIII.
Augustus Starr, the Privateer who turned Pedagogue — his New Crew mutiny, and perform a Singular Exploit
XIX.
Eleventh Winter — Mr. Silverson, our First Teacher from College — his Blunder at Meeting on  the Sabbath — his Character as a Schoolmaster
XX.
A College Master again — his Character in School and out — our First Attempts at Composition — Brief Sketch of Another Teacher
XXI.
The Examination at the Closing of the School
XXII.
The Old School-house again — its Appearance the Last Winter — why so long occupied — a New One at last

A Supplication to the People of the United States

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