My school-children are wild and impetuous!

If my memory serves me right it was at about this time that I, the humble biographer of Mr. Clive Newcome's life, met him again for the first time since my school days at Grey Friars.

It was little Newcome, my school-fellow, whom I had not seen for six years, grown a fine tall young stripling now, with the same bright blue eyes which I remembered when he was quite a little boy.

Public speaking was not a major problem for me nor did I suffer from stage-fright as I had participated in several school competitions and also represented my school in inter-school debates.

She did not seem disposed to investigate further the subject of her mother's and my school-days.

Finally, Eccellenza decided to have me educated in the Jesuits' school; and I had to bid farewell to good Domenica and to enter upon my school life.

I do hope my school here in Hooker's Bend will be of some real value.

" "Do you mean my school-teaching?" Then came a pause.

I only once tasted sherbet in Persia, and was somewhat surprisedso lasting are one's youthful associationsto find it utterly different to the refreshing but somewhat depressing beverage of my school-days, sold, if I remember rightly, at twopence a packet.

This is not the first time my feet have tried ladder-bars; in the country-spent vacations of my school-days, how many times have I alertly scaled the highest leading to granaries, to barn-lofts, to bird-houses, to all quasi-inaccessible places, whither my daring ignorancereckless, because unconscious of dangerhad tempted me!

Presently Mother Mary Superior and my two sisters came to us in the reception room and my brother deposited the fund for my school incidentals, and after a brief conversation, departed.

No escape was permitted even to the ill-willing, and it may easily be imagined that this addendum to the annoyances of my school hours made the position of the district schoolmaster one for which sixteen dollars a month was no compensation.

The bed given me was as cold as the snow outside, but it was luxury compared to some of the quarters I had in my school district.

You very kindly express the wish that you could bear some of my school drudgery with me.

My school life had been dull and uneventful.

At the very last moment, however, I had the good fortune to win the praise and admiration of every one, from the headmaster downwards, and to find my school life made very pleasant and easy to me.

There was one hundred sixty pupils in my school.

I have lived rather a secluded life, here on this plantation since my school days, meeting few men of my own station, and still young enough to be romantic.

'I can very well remember, that at my School-mistresses, whenever we broke up, I was always for joining my self with the Miss who Lay in, and was constantly one of the first to make a Party in the Play of Husband and Wife.

In this house I started my school, and there were no lack of pupils whose parents were able and willing to pay for their tuition, but ruffians stood before the house and hooted at the "nigger school.

At one time, our school was so far in advance of the white school, that I was told by my school director that "no high-learnt teacher was wanted to teach 'Nigger Schools,'" and I was actually driven from my school by threats of violence.

Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, 15 A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky.

My school friends were attentive, but I only admitted Helen Perkins to see me.

Of study I was never fond, My school books gave me no delight, I patronized the nearest pond, To fish or swim by day or night.

The innocent cherubs never studied in my school-house, nor played puss-in-the-corner in our back-yard.