Capitolo 51
qualified to teach; but what he anticipated in advance.
The building is still being standing in that James taught his/her first school.
It is now used for completely another purpose, being busy as a
carriage-house from the economical grower that possesses the earth on that it
stands. The place where the desk of the teacher was standing, the back part that the boy
is standing as founder, now it is busy from two stalls for carriage-horses.
The benches that once contained his/her children that he has taught have been
removed to now make space to the carriage of family and the play-earth it is
a threshing floor. The building sits on an imposing eminence known as Prominence
Reduces to a hillock, and it neglects a long valley that leaves without breath among two lines of hills.
This description is furnished by the same correspondent in the Boston
_Herald_ to whom I am already indebted for the reminiscences of Henry Boynton
contained in the last chapter.
When James entered sight, and you/he/she slowly climbed the hill in sight of the
motley crew of boys and girls in front of that you/they were assembled the
school-house in the first morning of the term, was more anymore one of the
difficult moments of his/her life. He instinctively knew that the boys were
anticipating the fun in shop for them in the inevitable conflict that
attends him, and he felt him forced and nervous. He handled, however,
to pass through the crowd, while bringing a pleasant smile and greeting his
studious with an arc. There was arrival of trouble, he was convinced, but him
doesn't choose to betray some apprehension.
I CAPITULATE XII.
WHO WILL BE MASTER?
With as a lot of dignity as it was possible bottom the circumstances, James
advanced to the desk of the teacher and it encircled the bell.
This was not really necessary, for out of the curiosity all the researchers had
quickly follows the young teacher in the school-room and taken them
places.
After the introductory exercises, James made a brief address to the
studious:
"I don't need some introduction to you", he said, "for You all knows me. ME