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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...architecture. French B taught very thoroughly, and almost daily, in all the classes; English is only a secondary study. Every Thursday we have to ostein to a sermon. The rector wears his chancel-gown, and preaches upon the text of the following Sunday. I don't see the use of these sermons, for the girls don't pay much attention to them. While the last rector lived, they were obliged to write compositions about the sermons; but the present rector, although very strict in some things, takes this easy. As a general rule, Stuttgart has very good schools, although the method of teaching is exceedingly slow. One girl counted up all the holidays during the eight years she passed at the Catharinenstift, and found that two whole years had been holidays. Hoping to sec your dear magazine soon, I remain your friend, Anna Helmke. M. E A.--Jack will print your clever story. Mamie A. Johnson.--Please send post-office address again to Little Schoolma'am, care of St. Nicholas magazine, so that she may send you a book. (Sec ' Hoppers and Walkers, ' page 199.) Dear St. Nicholas: Hiram G asks if there are any other of vour readers who have seen live potato-bugs washed up on the beach. I live about nine miles from the Atlantic Ocean; and on Fire Island last summer I saw; you might almost say, hills of them, the greater part alive, washed up by the surf--One of your constant readers and Willard P. Reid. Brooklyn, Oct. 29, 1875. My Dear St. Nicholas; Mamma says to ask you if you think it is wise for me, a boy eight years old, to begin to read the St. Nicholas as soon as I rise, and during all my play-hours? I am so fond of it, and find so much of interest in it, that / think U is the best kind of play for me--don't you? Papa has subscribed for iall of the Abbott's Histories for me...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154884241 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154884244 |
| Weight | 2.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $33.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 644 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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