Capitolo 9
this will constitute a very respectable education.
The reader is introduced to the principal classroom of the Rossville
Academy in the morning of the day of what the war that satisfies takings
place.
At nine o'clock the bell encircled, and the researchers sat him.
After the devotional and preliminary exercise, the Mr. Rathburn, instead of
immediately calling the excellent one, it made a break a moment, and he/she spoke as
it follows:
"Studious, I don't need to remember her/it to that in the first day of the term,
with the sketch to encourage to aim her/it to improvement in English
composition, I offered two prize-one for the better composition written by a
boy more than fourteen years adult; the other for the best composition from
some a bottom that age. It gives me to like to affirm that in the most greater part of
those submitted to me I recognize worth, and I should be happy if it
it was in my power to give three times as many prizes. Those of you,
however that it is without success he will feel refunded by the benefit that you have
yourselves deduced from the efforts that you have constituted another end."
During this address, John Haynes looked around him with an air of
gratification and the importance. He felt little you doubt that his own composition
on the "Military Genius of Napoleon" it would win the prize. He didn't do
then a lot of care for this, apart the credit it would give him/it. But
his/her father that was ambitious for him had made him a promise twenty-five
dollars if he succeeded, and he had already appropriated this sum in
imagination. He had determined to invest him/it in a beautiful boat that
he had seen for sale to Boston on his/her last visit to that city.
"After the accurate consideration", it continued the teacher, "I have decided
what the prize should be judged to an entitled composition 'The Duties of
Boys on the Crisis Nazionale and Present', written by Frank Frost."
There was a general applause of hands to this announcement. Frank was
a favorite general, and you protect his/her disappointed competitors they felt a degree of