It was one of those remarkable cases in which the paths of two men who are joined in destiny traverse each other.

Was it not strange that two future occupants of the Presidential chair should be found teaching in the same school-room, in an obscure Vermont village, two successive winters?
As the reader, though this is the biography of Garfield, may feel a curiosity to learn what sort of a teacher Arthur was, I shall, without apology, conclude this chapter with the story of a pupil of his who, in the year 1853, attended the district school at Cohoes, then taught by Chester A.Arthur.I find it in the Troy _Times_: "In the year 1853 the writer attended the district school at Cohoes.

The high department did not enjoy a very enviable reputation for being possessed of that respect due from the pupils to teacher.

During the year there had been at least four teachers in that department, the last one only remaining one week.

The Board of Education had found it difficult to obtain a pedagogue to take charge of the school, until a young man, slender as a May-pole and six feet high in his stockings, applied for the place.