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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There were no high schools in Nancy's day and no regular sessions Of grammar or primary school. A small, red schoolhouse stood across the way from the meeting-house, down near the frog pond and the alder swamp. Sometimes the men of the town would meet and vote to supply wood for the school fire during one or two months. Then school would keep, and the boys and girls would have a brief chance at book-learning.

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Lettres et linguistique

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Publié par	Forgotten Books
Date de parution	27 novembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780243743261
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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N came in from her favorite by the river and th ew herself down in the big cha r by the front windowIt was April and the air was intoxicatingly sweet with s nlight and the fragrance the damp earth Moreover the river was riotously blue and turbulent true to itsInd an name Merr mac the place strong cur rents Nancy s cheeksﬂamed with color her brown eyes shone with the re spr ng and ﬁ her curly ha r wasblown bewitchingly about her face There was not a prettier girl in Bra ford nor in all the va ley the Mer rimac than Ann generally known as Nancy and none more popular There seemed to be no limit to her love oodtimes andto her merry laughing

mood She could bribe the be l ringer at the academy with a smhome was theile At life the household Th s last winter had been the gayest all her sixteen years thanks to that same littleunpainted academy down the road where more than eightybys and irls were gathered in school There were no high schools in Nancy s day and no re lar sessions gra mar primary school small red schoolhou e stood across the way from the meeting hous down near the frog pond and the alder swamp Sometimes the men of the town would meet and vote to supply wood for the schoolﬁre during or two months Then school would keep and theboys and g rls would have a brief chance atbook learning By and by in the springtime some wise parents decided that someth ng must done for the further education their children Whereupon about thir y of the Ithe First Parish in Bradhabitants of ford the re ords read met together and agreed to erect a building for an acad emy They subscribed for shares in the build ng funduntiﬁteen hundrddar f

was pledged John Nancy s father gave a hundred dollars Then these enterprising New England set went to work and bui t the academy completing it j ust three months from the time the meet ng in March Early in June theﬁat the timerst term opened year when schools nowadays are getti g ready to close More thanﬁfty pupils hastened to the new academy from Bradford and other Massachusetts towns fromVermont New Hampshire and even from South arolina many them traveli g the long distance by stage coach Nancy and her three sisters were among theﬁrst pupils On the outside the building looked like a small district schoolhouse such as we to day in the heart the cou tryInside were two classro ms one the right the boys another on the left the girls narrow corridor separated them and pro somewhat in front Above this pro a square tower rose to the height a second story culminating in an arched lfr ichullnOf cou