Excerpt from Highways and Byways From the St. Lawrence to Virginia I could easily agree with him when later I passed a district schoolhouse that occupied a wayside knoll in an outlying section Of the village. The children, while waiting for the final call Of the bell in the little cupola, were having a riotous snowballing frolic and were powdered from head to foot. It seemed to be a good natured tumult, except that the boys were kicking around one Of the girl's rubbers, which the owner, with shrill-voiced protests, was trying to rescue. The school house had stood there before any church had been built in the region, and John Brown used to attend Sunday services in it. 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.