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Show was a good run of sugar water or sap from the sugar trees, the camp kettles were kept boiling day and night, making from 10 to 25 pounds daily. Children and everybody present were made welcome to eat all the new sugar they desired. In the winter the farmers were up early, breakfast eaten by candlelight, the stock fed and at an early hour the children were off to school and the men to their clearings, chopping down trees, trimming up the brush and piling it into great brush heaps and when it became dry it was burned, mainly in the evening when there was bnt but little or no wind. It was fine sport for children to witness wit-ness the flames shooting np so high as to make it almost as light as day. J In summer time, men, women and children went barefoot and this was called "turning feet out to grass." In my day schools were noorlv provided for. There were no nice seats with backs, no blackboards, and to learn to read, write, and cipher, ci-pher, as far as the rule of three or proportion, was considered a finished finish-ed education. I cannot -call to mind that geography and grammar were ever taught in any of the schools which I attended. School houses were built of rough unhewn logs, and to admit light into the room an opening was made between two logs nearly the whole length and breadth of the building. This opening was papered up with greased paper. In the winter the school house was warmed up by a huge fire being built between the jambs which were 6 or 8 feet apart, and in front of this fire a dozen children could stand and get warm j at the same time. Virginian. 1 The last of February and the month of March was the time for making maple sugar and when there |