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Title: Colonial children
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Hazard, Blanche Evans
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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that whenI hoot they would infallibly take me for an owl.Also on occasion, I can bray so very advantageously,that few donkeys can go beyond me. Nay, to such a perfection am I now arrived in theart of mimicry, that I am able not only to make anysound that I hear, but I have a faculty of looking likeanybody I think fit. There is no person whom Ihave ever seen, but I can immediately throw all hisfeatures into my face, assume his air and monopolizehis whole countenance. I remember when I was aschool-boy my master once gave me an unlucky rapon my pate, for a fault committed by Giles Horror,whose visage I had at that time most unfortunatelyput on. Esau Absent may remember to this day, ifhe is living, how his mother took me for him, when Imarched off in triumph, with a huge lunch of breadand butter, that was just spread for Esaus dinner. When I was three years old, I was sent to schoolto a mistress, where I learned to read with great dis-patch ; in my fifth year, I was taken away and put to
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A COLONIAL SCHOOL-GIRL (MISTRESS CAMPION). 2 24 Colonial Schools (No. 82 a writing master. In my seventh year I could flour-ish a tolerable hand, and began my grammar. By thetime that I was fourteen, I was considerably profi-cient in the Latin and Greek languages, and wasadmitted into Harvard College. Fithian was agraduate ofPrincetonCollege whowent downto Virginiato be thetutor of thechildren ofthe wealthyCarterfamily, attheir estatecalled Nom-ini Hall. Horse raceswere thefavoriteamusementof the time inthe southerncolonies, andwere usuallyfollowed by aball calledthe Assem-bly. 82. A Tutor and his Pupils By Philip Fithian (i773-1774) Monday, November 1. We began school. Theschool consists of eight. Two of Mr. Carters sons,one nephew, and five daughters. The eldest son isreading Sallust; grammatical exercises, and Latingrammar. The second son is reading English gram-mar, and reading English writing, and ciphering insubtraction. The nephew is reading and writing asabove; and ciphering i

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