The District School as it was: By One who Went to itJ. O. Taylor, 1838 - 156 páginas |
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Página 53 - Understanding Reader. When a new master persuaded them into Murray, then we were admitted into Scott. ' The principal requisites in reading in these days, were to read fast, mind the ' stops and marks,' and speak up loud. As for suiting the tone to the meaning, no such thing was dreamed of, in our school at least. As much emphasis was laid on an insignificant of, or, and, as on the most important word in the piece. But no wonder we did not know how to vary our tones, for we did not always know the...
Página 60 - Memorus was mighty also in saying those after-spelling matters, the Key, the Abbreviations, the Punctuation, &c. These things were deemed of great account to be laid up in remembrance, although they were all very imperfectly understood, and some of them not understood at all. Punctuation! How many hours, days, and even weeks have I tugged away, to lift, as it were, to roll up into the storehouse of my memory, the many long, heavy sentences...
Página 64 - Well, the master sent me out to hear you spell.' ' Did he? well, put out the words, and I'll spell.' Memorus being so distinguished a speller, Jonas did not doubt but that he was really sent out on this errand. So our deputy spelling-master mounted the top of the wood-pile, just in front of Jonas, to put out words to his temporary pupil, who still kept on putting out chips. ' Do you know where the lesson begins, Jonas ? ' ' No, I don't, but I spose I shall find out now.
Página 112 - Ben, who prided himself on his knack at tools, considering that he had never served an apprenticeship at their use. There was no lack of timber in the fabrication. Mark Martin said that he could make a better frame with a jack-knife in his left hand, and keep his right in his pocket. My first exercise was transcribing from my Arithmetic to my manuscript. At the top of the first page I penned ARITHMETIC, in capitals an inch high, and so broad that this one word reached entirely across the page. At...
Página 65 - Memorus, in a broken but louder voice than before ; for he caught a glimpse of the master, and he wished to let him know that he was doing his duty. This was too much for the master's gravity ^He perceived the mistake, and without saying more, wheeled back into the school-room, almost bursting with the most tumultuous laugh he ever tried to suppress. The scholars wondered at his looks, and grinned in sympathy...
Página 63 - cut and split" for the fire fell short, and Jonas Patch was out wielding the axe in school time. He had been at work about half an hour, when Memorus, who was perceived to have less to do than the rest, was sent out to take his place. He was about ten years old, and four years younger than Jonas. " Memorus, you may go out and spell Jonas.
Página 114 - In plain language, whoever cyphered through the above-mentioned rule was supposed to have arithmetic enough for the common purposes of life. If one proceeded a few rules beyond this, he was considered ' quite smart.' But if he went clear through, Miscellaneous Questions and all, he was thought to have an extraordinary taste and genius for figures. Now and then a youth, after having been through Adams, entered upon old Pike, the arithmetical sage who ' set the sums' for the preceding generation.
Página 60 - Abs before he was thought old enough for school. At an earlier age than usual, however, he was sent ; and then he went from Ache to Abomination, in half the summers and winters it took the rest of us to go over the same space.
Página 114 - The next winter I began at Addition again, to advance just through Interest. My third season I went over the same ground again, and, besides that, ciphered to the very last sum in the Rule of Three. This was deemed quite an achievement for a lad only fourteen years old, according to the ideas prevailing at that period. Indeed...
Página 50 - B,' as a little girl said for a whole year, and still find themselves strangers to some of the sable company even then. Our little reader is permitted at length to turn a leaf, and he finds himself in the region of the Abs — an expanse of little syllables making me, who am given to comparisons, think of an extensive plain whereon there is no tree, or shrub, or plant, or anything else inviting to the eye, and nothing but little stones, stones, stones, all about the same size.