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JULY-SEPTEMBER 1848
Miss Niles
I send my little boy to your school this morning. He has been taught
reading and spelling. He reads pretty well without being able to spell as
well.
Will Miss Niles watch him in his intercourse with other boys during
the hours of recreation. If he does not obey please send me word. I have
a broken limb or I would call and see you. His studies I of course leave to
your judgement. His name is Henry—
Mrs James Freeland
* * * * *
Will Miss Niles please excuse Henrys absence last week. He had the
rheumatism. Please not allow him to sit by the open window nor in a
draft. 1 would rather that he did not play out in the wet today. He says he
was disobedient once last week. Miss Niles will please enforce strict
obedience from him. . think obedience the first lesson to be learned in
every child. If he is not obedient I wish to know it.
yours with respect
Mrs James Freeland
Judge Niles read quickly through the notes and passed them on to his
wife without comment.
“What about the fees?” he asked Cornelia. ‘It always seemed to me
that Mr. Rankin and the school board were asking too much. Here in
Rensselaerville township no one has ever asked more than three dollars a
term per pupil, and even that’s not an easy sum for many families to
afford.”
“T think perhaps there is a little more income in that part of the country, Pa, although that’s not true of all of the folks down there. But I didn’t
think it was my place to say anything.”
“Well, you’re probably right. Then you’re bound to go back for another term?”
“Oh, yes, Pa! I couldn’t think of leaving now, when I’ve just begun.
The boys and girls are just beginning to show some real progress and .
just couldn’t abandon them now.”
“And you’re content with your boarding place, Cornelia?” asked
Polly.
“Very much, Ma. If I were not, then I might be more willing to come
home, and if I had a school such as Caroline King has, I don’t think .
should like it a bit. I couldn’t endure to be boarding around among
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