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Show I "I REMEMBER"! re thi did timer: -. . From B. W. Smith, North Belmont, Bel-mont, N.C. : I remember the school-house school-house I attended was only a one-room one-room frame building. The grades were from tho first through seventh, sev-enth, taught by one school teacher, While one class was in session, the other classes studied their lessons. We had to study as best we could with the noise of other classes reciting re-citing and studying out loud. The schoolhouse was heated in winter by a large wood heater, The fuel consisted of four foot cord wood, cut from the woods surrounding sur-rounding , the schoolhouse, The drinking fountain consisted of two ten-quart galvanized pails which sat on bench in the back of the room. These pails each had a tin dipper. Later on we bought tin folding cups and they would sometimes some-times fold up while we had them full pf water. This was rough in winter as we had to wear wet clothes until they dried. Students that received punishment punish-ment were whipped with long, keen oak and hickory limbs. This type of punishment usually left stripes. Another form of punishment: students stu-dents caught fighting, or disobeying disobey-ing the teacher, were made to carry car-ry pieces of cord wood around on their shoulders, marching around the schoolhouse while the other students laughed at them. Another punishment was being made to cut wood for the heater with an ax that was often full of gaps and quite dull. At other times, we would have to stay in during recess or lunch hour, or memorize poems or parts of the Bible. |