Ann of Ava #233561

There were no high schools in Nancy's day and no regular sessions Of grammar or primary school. A small, red schoolhouse stood across the way from the meeting-house, down near the frog pond and the alder swamp. Sometimes the men of the town would meet and vote to supply wood for the school fire during one or two months. Then school would keep, and the boys and girls would have a brief chance at book-learning.