OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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but later a desk specially contrived by the carpenter, on a slight platform, was customary. Besides serv- |
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A Teacher's Desk. |
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ing the ordinary purposes of a desk, it was a repository for confiscated tops, balls, penknives, marbles, jewsharps, etc., and was frequently a perfect curiosity-shop. |
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