The Comet 1897 The Comet Vol I Issue 5 | Page 11

THE COMET : MAY , 1898 . 11
with us .
Such a time was always -made a great occasion .
The house was turned over to us , and we had rare games and romping .
No lessons were known the next day .
" The girls M the school played janitor

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which took it day about or week about sweeping the school room .
The room
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was . heated by a wood stove , and the wood was cut and fires made by the boys .
Sometimes they were compelled to forage for wood on the creek nearby .
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from the creek and brought
by
the
boys ,
who
were
always
glad
to
go for it in order to escape the dread-
perfect picture of that sweet face , ever
of the . same subject matter was always
ful bore of a school kept in session for
framed in the flawing silky brown hair ,
acceptable .
nine long hours a day , and generally
if only chemistry could develop a neg-
" We used
Davies '
arithmetics ,
but
under rigid discipline .
The writer was
ative of the memory .
after attaining
some advancement
did
fond of ' his books , and did well in his
The two usually led their classes . He
not recite in class .
Eaoo boy worked
studies ,
but in the endless afternoons
" lV ' 3 . Sfoud of getting
her
at
the head
through
the ' book pretty
much at
his
he often sat at a window and longed
of the
spelling
class , and ,
by getting
own pleasure and at h is own pace ; the
for
the
freedom
of the
animals
out-
and holding
the
place next , isol ' ating
bright ,
industrious
ones
rapidly ;
the
side .
her from . the rest and thus cutting off dull and lazy ones more slowly , or not
" The
session
usually
lasted
four
his rivals .
If she missed
a word he
working
at all .
months
in the winter
and two in the
spelled it and passed up , but , strange
" So much for the old country SChool ;
summer ,
the intermediate
months
be-
to say , the next easy word that
came
the school
master
is gone
and
his
ing devoted to the planting
and ga th-
his way ' he was sure to miss and she
place
has
been
taken
by
the
dainty
ering
of crops ,
in
which
work ,
of
gained her accustomed place .
The Iit-
young lady from the city , who has a
course , the children aided .
" The texts used were primeval
as
tie favorite returned ' his Jl .~ rtialHy , and cozy school room , supplied the attachment was the joke of the two I S ~" apparatus , teaches at
with modthirty dolwere
also the disciplin
and methods
families
and of the neigihborhood .
lars a moutz .
tells beautiful
stories ,
is .
of instruction .
All gradually
improv- I
the
impersonation
01
e- " ntleness and
ed as the writer
grew
older and
had
"' A
sunbeam kissed a silver ripple ,
kindness ,
and
Who would
jTl ' Oi . JaG " c
become almost modern by the time he
Naught
shall dissever ' thee and me .
fain
at
sight of a bloody nose .
Th ' e
was old enough to attend a high school
In night ' s
wide
darkness
passed
the
change , in the writer ' s
opinion ,
is not
that ' had been established
in a distant
beam away ,
an una lloyrrl gain ."
town .
They served their purpose pret-
The ripple mingled
w ith the sea .'
ty well however . Those crude schools did about as good work in some instances as the modern city schools .
" The speller USEd has been mentioned , Webster ' s " blue back ." All who have used or examined it know that it groups the words according to length and accent and not according to use , meaning , flifficult spelling or any other reasonable principle . The groups are large or small according as the learned author was sleepy or not when he was making up the groups , it seems . No definitions were given worth mentioning , and a quantity of reading matter was interspersed which was never read . We stood up in line to spell , and words missed WEre passed down the line , the one who succeeded in spelling tile word being allowed to pass above all who had missed it . The head of the class was , of course , the place of honor . This plan was sometimes varied , but all teachers had the class stand up and spell orally .
" The writer had his romance , or rather romances , as have so many before him . From eight to ten his flame was a Iit ' tle dark-eyed , brown- ' haired , curly-headed girl of his own age . He -could now produce for his readers a
" And so it was with this childhood love affair . Her father moved to a distant State , and she sleeps to-day beneath the turf of another clime , while the wrLer-well he is writing this account . Other attachments ' have long since overshadowed ', hio , but none hav = left a more delicatelyc inted memory .
" Voleused the old McGuffey readers , and the excerpts they contained were the only glimpses we got of litera- . UTe . Fortunately many of them were very good and many of them throughout tile series I can repeat to-day verbatim . Story reading was impossible , for we had no books ; and if we hac ! had ' all the books in the world it would have been regarded as quite as much out of pl-ace in the school as the playing of cards . Stories were told us at our homes , but were never told nor read at school .
" History we did not study , but the advanuced ' s : tudents were allowed to read it as a substitute for the readers , This prtvjlege was the mark of high advancement , and was so much appreciated by myself that I read not one nor two texts , but everyone that I ' could buy or borrow . A new version
EXCHANGES . ( For Latin Pupils .)
Puer ex Saganaw , lens ad school ; Videt in meadow
Infestus mule . Ille approacheso maguus sorrow , Puer i , skyward-
Funeral to-morrow . Moral .
Qui videt a thing Non ei well known ;
Est vene for him Relingue id alone .
" j thought I knew I knew it all , But now I must confess
The more 1 know I know I know I know 1 know the less ." •
" Tempus Iugir ," said the Romans ;
Yes ; alas , ' tis fleeting on , Ever coming Ever going Life is short , and soon ' tis done ; But as I think of next vacatipn , Pouring over these lessons huge Ever harder , Ever longer ;
All I say is : " Let her fudge ." -Ex_