CHAPTER II.
OSCAR IN SCHOOL.
The school which Oscar attended was held in a large and lofty brick building, a short distance from the street on which he lived.

His brothers attended the same school, but his sisters did not, it being only for boys.

The pupils numbered four or five hundred--a good many boys to be together in one building.

But though belonging to one school, and under the control of one head master, they did not often meet together in one assembly.

They were divided into eight or ten branches, of about fifty scholars each, and each branch had its own separate room and teacher.