Perhaps you may still contrive, now you have exhausted the barn, to pick up a grain or two in the barn-yard.

You are still ignorant of figures, I believe, not that I would mention figures in the same day with Lilly's grammar.' These words were uttered in a place called -- -, in the north, or in the road to the north, to which, for some time past, our corps had been slowly advancing.

I was sent to the school of the place, which chanced to be a day school.

It was a somewhat extraordinary one, and a somewhat extraordinary event occurred to me within its walls.
It occupied part of the farther end of a small plain, or square, at the outskirts of the town, close to some extensive bleaching fields.

It was a long low building of one room, with no upper story; on the top was a kind of wooden box, or sconce, which I at first mistook for a pigeon-house, but which in reality contained a bell, to which was attached a rope, which, passing through the ceiling, hung dangling in the middle of the school-room.