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Title: Historical and pictorial Lititz ..
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Zook, John G
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Publisher: Lititz, Pa., Express Printing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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se who had cultivated them, transplanting them into their own; all thisnaturally gave rise to quarrels and unhappy feelings, and I therefore determinedto remove the gardens. Various circumstances also led to a discontinuation ofthe riding exercises, after they had existed three years. Notwithstandingthese alterations, the play-ground remained an attractive spot for the boys, untilthe now celebrated spring grew into favor, by reason of its extraordinarynatural beauties, and the great improvements made there, when they preferredgoing there. It remained in existence until the present year 1865, when inaccordance with an extended plan of the village, a street was opened along itssite, an alley opened through it, the trees were cut down and the enclosuretaken away. In 1832 Mr. John Rickert, whom many of you remember, offered as anAssistant Teacher, his services to me. Well aware of his qualifications, I readilyaccepted his offer, realizing how much the school must be improved thereby, (50)
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and how materially I should be relieved of some of my duties. A short sketchof Mr. Rickert may not be out of place here, as it may prove interestingto those of you who were in his class. He entered my school in 1816, in his9th year, and soon manifesled extraordinary talents, rising rapidly to the fore-most rank of all my scholars. At 1 2 years of age his father intended to takehim from school, unable to afford the expense any longer, and his intention was,to hire him out to some farmer, in whose employ the lad might earn somethingfor him. I deemed it a pity that so bright a boy should be hired out to menialwork upon a farm, and offered the father the advantages of my schoolgratuitously for his son, guaranteeing to provide him with any books he mightneed. The old gentleman assented to this. In his 1 4 th year, I made him anusher and he assisted me daily, after his own recitations, for about three hoursin hearing classes. At the age of 1 5, he left School, and after a short attemptat a

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