The Life and Letters of Mrs Emily C Judson

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE BCHOOL-TEACHEB. I have made a changeful jonrney Up the hill of life since morn; I have gathered flowers and blossoms, I've been pierced by many a thorn. Rut from out the core of sorrow I have plucked a jewel rare; The strength which mortals gather In their ceaseless strife with care. Emily...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE BCHOOL-TEACHEB. I have made a changeful jonrney Up the hill of life since morn; I have gathered flowers and blossoms, I've been pierced by many a thorn. Rut from out the core of sorrow I have plucked a jewel rare; The strength which mortals gather In their ceaseless strife with care. Emily was now fairly inducted into the mysteries of the birch. The beauties of boarding round, of training regiments of literary aspirants, of all possible youthful sizes and ages, in the small, ill-constructed, ill-warmed, ill-ventilated school-houses of our rural and sparsely populated districts, I leave to the knowledge and fancy of my readers. But she pursued her employment with a will, and consequently with success. She closed her school in Smithfield in September. Allowing herself but a slight respite she went in November to Nelson (the scene of her debut as a teacher) to instruct in a private family. But the severity of the winter, and the feebleness of her health, compelled her to cut short her engagement, and she returned home in February. She continued ill during the summer, and though her pen was not idle, she was unequal to any steady employment. In January herhealth had improved, and she entered again the academy at Morrisville. After remaining one quarter as a pupil, she was transferred to the post of teacher, -which she occupied until April of the year following. The integrity of the family was now broken in upon by the removal of her brother Walker to Milwaukee, in Wisconsin, where he still resides, editing a. paper, and a respected member of the Presbyterian church. His conversion stood connected, I think, with a letter ad- dressed to him by Dr. Judson a short time before Emily's marriage. This year also witnessed the marriage of...