Elizabeth Russell was a nice, clever little critter, and Mrs.Ned was a nice woman, too.

But they weren't ever like the schoolmaster's bride.
"The schoolmaster's name was John Selwyn.

He came out from the Old Country to teach school at the Glen when I was a boy of sixteen.

He wasn't much like the usual run of derelicts who used to come out to P.E.I.to teach school in them days.

Most of them were clever, drunken critters who taught the children the three R's when they were sober, and lambasted them when they wasn't.