Excerpt from Confessions of a School Master The following work is a faithful though painful exhibition of facts as they occurred during ten or twelve years of the life of a common school mas ter. It is called his Confessions, because his errors, and confessions of error, appear to pre dominate; especially during several of the first years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.