Others, remembering that Miss Seabury had graduated from that school, were for proved ability and less up-to-date methods.

These latter had selected a candidate in the person of a Miss Phoebe Dawes, a resident of Wellmouth, and teacher of the Wellmouth "downstairs" for some years.

The arguments at Simmons's were hot ones.
"What's the use of hirin' somebody from right next door to us, as you might say ?" demanded Alpheus Smalley, clerk at the store.

"Don't we want our teachin' to be abreast of the times, and is Wellmouth abreast of ANYthing ?" "It's abreast of the bay, that's about all, I will give in," replied Mr.
Tidditt.

"But, the way I look at it, we need disCIPline more 'n anything else, and Phoebe Dawes has had the best disCIPline in her school, that's been known in these latitudes.