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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
	Pages from Old Spellers

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