A Busy Year at the Old Squire's (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Busy Year at the Old Squire'sCousin Addison drove to the village with horse and pung to fetch him, and the pung, I remember, was filled with the master's belongings, including his school melodeon, books and seven large wall maps for teach ing geography. For Master Pierson brought a com plete outfit, even to the stack of school song-books which later were piled on the top of the melodeon that stood in front of the teacher's desk at the schoolhouse. Every space between the windows was covered by those wall maps. NO other teacher had ever made the old schoolhouse so attractive. NO other teacher had ever entered on the task of giving us instruction with such zeal and such enthusiasm. It was a zeal, too, and an enthusiasm which embraced every pupil in the room and stopped at nothing short Of enlisting that pupil's best efforts to learn.Master Pierson put life and hard work into every thing that went oh at school - even into the Old schoolhouse itself. Every morning he would be off from the Old Squire's at eight O'clock, to see that the school house was well warmed and ready to begin lessons at nine, and if there had been any neglect in sweeping or dusting, he would do it himself, and have every desk and bench clean and tidy before school time.What was more, Master Pierson possessed the rare faculty of communicating his own zeal for learning to his pupils. We became so interested, as weeks passed, that of our own accord we brought our school books home with us at night, in order to study evenings, and we asked for longer lessons that we might progress faster.My cousin Halstead was one of those boys (and their name is Legion) who dislike study and complain of their lessons that they are too long and too hard.' But strange to say, Master Joel Pierson somehow led Halse to really like geography that Winter. Those large wall maps in color were of great assistance to us all. In class we took turns going to them with a long pointer, to recite the lesson of the day. I remember just how the different countries looked and how they were bounded - though many of these boundaries are now, of course, considerably changed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.