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Title: Curious schools
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Schools
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sent my little 6«? Perkins Institution 2<or The Blind, readers ? She expresses herself strangely sometimes,but these are just her very words : Tell the children I want them to enjoy themselves inthe presence of Christ — Heaven is wide awake/ 61 BOSTON WHITTLING SCHOOLS. A PILE of empty cigar-boxes, a brad and a glue-pot, six movable benches, twenty-four jack-knives, and twenty-four boys as bright and as sharpas the jack-knives that was the beginning ! It was in the winter of 1866, and the warm, coseychapel on Hollis Street looked very inviting that coldJanuary evening when the whittlers first cametogether. They had heard about it — these little streeturchins — the Sunday before at the different missionschools; and all the week their fingers had just beenaching to begin ! Exactly what they were to do was, to be sure,something of a mystery; but, as Teddy said to Jim,Whatever Mr. Chaney or Mr. Rowell gits up isallers tip-top ! I wish you could have seen the pleased faces that62
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PIONEER WH1TTLERS. Boston Whittling Schools, evening as the little fellows gathered around thesegentlemen! One after another the pretty paper patterns wereunrolled — scrolls, leaves, walls of Troy, and allsorts of curious zig-zags; and then, with an infiniteamount of patience, these indefatigable teachersshowed the eager boys how they were to draw thepatterns upon the wood, and how by a whittlehere and a whittle there, the old cigar-boxes couldbe converted into very pretty wood panels. Of course there were a few cut fingers, a few knottypieces that wouldnt shave off, and a discouragedsigh, now and then, when the knife slipped over thepenciled line; but when the two hours lesson wasover yOu would have been surprised, I know, at theamount of work that had been done. O, Mr. Rowell! Please let us stay just a littlelonger! Do lemme finish this one bit, Mr. Chaney;Johnnys done moren me ! But the nine oclock bell was ringing, the signal toshut up shop; so, with the promise of anotherlesson

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