In many of them we have built schoolhouses too.

Horror succeeded horror, and the climax came one day when we were passing a little schoolhouse some miles below the fort, in the midst of a district well populated.

If it seemed best to erect a new schoolhouse in some other part of the district, what could be done with the present buildings and grounds?

Upon a knoll, in the middle of the village, stood a schoolhouse, and from that spot the view was very extensive.

A succession of New England villages, composed of neat houses, surrounding neat schoolhouses and churches, adorned with gardens, meadows, and orchards, and exhibiting the universal easy circumstances of the inhabitants, is, at least in my own opinion, one of the most delightful prospects which this world can afford.

You say, 'They're goin' to tear the schoolhouse down,' or something like that, and the other boy says, 'What fur?'

As these sat down the white children near them deserted the benches: and in a day or two the white children were wholly withdrawn, leaving the schoolhouse to the teacher and his colored pupils.

On reaching the schoolhouse the next morning, I found gathered there not only a part of the scholars, but some of their parents,including the trustees of the school,and was not long in learning that my absence had been made use of by the disaffected of the district to depose me.

In the country many and many a leader like Baxter works faithfully year in and year out, posting notices of caucuses, school meetings and elections, opening cold schoolhouses, talking to candidates, prodding selfish votersand mostly without reward.

* 63 su' macs char' coal of fi' cial fres' coes in i' tial rest' less ly IN SCHOOL DAYS Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumacs grow And blackberry vines are running.

" They trimmed the little schoolhouse with evergreen and erected a small stage, where the teacher's desk had been.

As soon as a new railroad ran through a village of five hundred inhabitants that could boast a schoolhouse, a church, or a hotel, and one enterprising man or woman, a course of lectures was at once inaugurated as a part of the winter's entertainments.

Just here, too, for the space of a mere minute Andy could view the schoolhouse through a break in the timber.

It brought down the schoolhouse in a storm of clapping and thumping, of "Bravos" and "Encores."

They'll not burn the schoolhouses, nor the hospitalthey are not such fools, for they benefit the community; and they'll only kill the colored people who resist them.

They were a merry company, crowding the schoolhouse, laughing and whispering as they waited for the first exhibit.

Then the three in perfect harmony entered the schoolhouse.

In their altered aspects we came to know these schoolhouses mighty well.

Big workshops and factories lay below the mountain walls; and scattered over the valley-bottom were the workingmens' homes, encircled by little gardens; and in the centre of the valley lay the schoolhouse.

"But I mustI muststiffen my back," he said sternly to himself, as he neared the dingy schoolhouse toward which, from all directions, he could see his audience making its way.