And Christ said: “Inasmuch as ye
have done it unto one of the least of
these, ye have done it unto me.”
CHAPTER XXXIV.
I have said in an early chapter that after having attended Ma’am Weston’s school on North street, Mrs. Maynard’s in the second story room in the building on the corner of Main street and Town Square, and Mr. George P. Bradford’s school in a second story room on the opposite corner of Main street, I entered the high school in 1832. The high school house was situated on the north side of the Unitarian church between School street and the town tombs, and was a one story building about forty-five feet long and twenty or twenty-five feet wide, with a door on the southerly end.
The situation of the house recalls these lines of Whittier:
“The town ne’er heeds the sceptic’s hands,
While near her school the church tower stands;
Nor fears the bigot’s blinding rule,
While near the church tower stands the school.”