this your copy? Can't you tell?
Set all your letters parallel.
_I've done my sum--'tis just a groat_--
Let's see it.--_Master, m' I g' out?_
Yes, bring some wood in--What's that noise?
_It isn't I, Sir, it's them boys._--

Come, Billy, read--What's that? _That's A_--
_Sir, Jim has snatch'd my rule away_--
Return it, James.--Here rule with this--
Billy, read on,--_That's crooked S._
Read in the spelling-book--Begin--
_The boys are out_--Then call them in--
_My nose bleeds, mayn't I get some ice,_
_And hold it in my breeches?_--Yes.
John, keep your seat. _My sum is more_--
Then do't again--Divide by four,
By twelve, and twenty--Mind the rule.
Now speak, Manasseh, and spell tool.
_I can't--Well try--T,W,L._
Not wash'd your hands yet, booby, ha?
You had your orders yesterday.
Give me the ferule, hold your hand.
_Oh! Oh!_ There,--mind my next command.

The grammar read. Tell where the place is.
_C sounds like K in cat and cases._
_My book is torn._ The next--_Here not_--
E final makes it long--say note.
What are the stops and marks, Susannah?
_Small points, Sir._--And how many, Hannah?
_Four, Sir._ How many, George? _You look:_
_Here's more than fifty in my book._
How's this? Just come, Sam? _Why, I've been_--
Who knocks? _I don't know, Sir._ Come in.
"Your most obedient, Sir?" and yours.
Sit down, Sir. Sam, put to the doors.

What do you bring to tell that's new!
"Nothing that's either strange or true.
What a prodigious school! I'm sure
You've got a hundred here, or more.
A word, Sir, if you please." I will--
You girls, till I come in be still.

"Come, we can dance to-night--so you
Dismiss your brain-distracting crew,
And come--for all the girls are there,
We'll have a fiddle and a player."
Well, mind and have the sleigh-bells sent,
I'll soon dismiss my regiment.

Silence! The second class must read.
As quick as possible--proceed.
Not found your book yet? Stand--be fix'd--
The next read, stop--the next--the next.
You need not read again, 'tis well.
Come, Tom and Dick, choose sides to spell.
_Will this word do?_ Yes, Tom spell dunce.
Sit still there all you little ones.
_I've got a word_,--Well, name it. _Gizzard._
You spell it, Sampson--_G_,_I_,_Z_.
Spell conscience, Jack. _K_,_O_,_N_,
_S_,_H_,_U_,_N_,_T_,_S_.--Well done!
Put out the next--_Mine is folks._
Tim, spell it