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Q. What were the desks like? Were there
benches?
A. Desks for four of us to sit in each.
Q. When you went there was this the only school in the area?
There was nothing else like the one down at Berry’s Maple?
A. No only this one. I can’t actually remember the other ones.
I can remember the schoolmaster at the one down the bottom. He
was a sailor with a wooden stumpy leg. Mr. Field.
Q. What did he do when you were here? Did he have much to do
with this school?
A. No. I expect that it was more like a private enterprise 2d.
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one you know, but the father and uncles.
Q. Was there much separation? Was the fence across the
playground still when you went?
A. Yes the girls had one half and the boys had the other.
Q. Have you heard mention of the thatched building that was
there?
A. Now you mention it, yes. Old Rogers spoke about it. Yet it
puzzles me a little bit because of the other two little schools.
It is quite possible that the thatched one was a charity school.
Perhaps they didn’t have to pay where as these other two
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