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Rh The quick perceptions of the teacher at once comprehended the conditions, and he treated me with the greatest consideration and kindness; advising such changes and additions as seemed suitable, and most in accord with the studies I had taken with me; even, as I could later see, forming some new classes in branches outside of the customary routine of the public school; as elementary astronomy, ancient history, and the "Science of Language"; his own literary and scholarly tastes pointing significantly to the latter. If Milton's "Paradise Lost," and Pollok's "Course of Time" were ever dissected, transposed, analyzed and "parsed" by any class of vigilant youths, it was then and there.

The winter passed all too soon. A mile and a half through the snow had