Ah! I know you will be scholars;
You’ve said all rightly o’er:
Good children; and to-morrow
You are to learn some more.
Come now into the garden,
To the fruit and flowers away;
So well you’ve said your lessons,
That you deserve to play.—L. E. L.
O, what a pleasant place that school-house was! How happily did Alfred, and Walter, and little Sidney, pass their time there; taught so well and so kindly by good Miss Lee!
There it stands, down in a little dingle, with its deep roof and carved border, and its green latticed windows. It is shaded by a large elm,