Excerpt from Here a Little and There a Little: Essays, Sketches and Detached Thoughts Miss Maylin was a very successful and competent teacher, being remarkable for her great thoroughness and exactness. She taught in Salem nearly twenty years, when failing health obliged her to resign her school into other hands. She formed friendships with many of her scholars that only ended with their death or her own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.