Excerpt from Each and All: A Companion to the Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air, Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road From Long Ago to Now, Geographical Plays, Etc We were all too fond of school to lose more of it than could be helped. When Miss Andrews was called to Boston on business about her books She would leave us to keep school by ourselves, appointing a Special scholar to the charge of each class. We wrote our report of the day on the blackboard for her to see when She got home, and we so felt the responsibility of being placed on honor that the day was more likely to be one of unusual good behavior than of disorder. Once, and once only, I was willfully late to school. Learning on the way that the ice had broken up in the Merrimac and carried away a Span of the bridge, I turned aside and ran down to see the Sight. I returned to school after having seen it, half an hour late, and very uncomfortable; not that I feared either punishment or scolding, but some expression of disappointment, which I should mind more than either. But Miss Andrews was greatly interested in what I had seen, said She was glad I went, and assured the school that if She had known of it in time She would have taken the whole of us down to the river herself. 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.