I remarked to one of the ladies teaching there, how very clean and healthy the young women looked.

She said that the girls had lately been more in the open air than usual.
"And," said she, speaking of the class she was superintending, "I find these poor girls as apt learners as any other class of young people I ever knew." We left the room just before they were dismissed to dinner.
A few yards from the school, and by the same roadside, we came to a little cottage at the end of a row.

"We will call here," said my friend; "I know the people very well.

"A little, tidy, good-looking woman sat by the fire, nursing an infant at the breast.

The house was clean, and all the humble furniture of the poor man's cottage seemed to be still in its place.