OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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26 Old-time Schools and School-books |
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the warm season. Besides the neighbors' children she had four of her own to look after, yet her energies were by no |
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means exhausted, and the semi-leisure of the schoolroom allowed her to work quite steadily making shirts for the Indians at eight pence each.
The beginner's chief aid in starting on the road to learning was a hornbook — not really a book at all, but simply a bit of printed paper about three by four inches fastened on a thin piece of board. The name "hornbook" originated in the fact that the printed slip was covered |
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A Typical Hornbook. |
with a translucent |
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sheet of horn, " To save from fingers wet the letters fair." A light strip of metal, usually brass, was fastened with several short nails or tacks around the edges of the |
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