[A Busy Year at the Old Squire’s by Charles Asbury Stephens]@TWC D-Link bookA Busy Year at the Old Squire’s CHAPTER VII 2/18
That was my first winter in Maine, and the teacher at that singing school was not Seth Clark, but an itinerant singing master widely known as "Bear-Tone." As opportunities for musical instruction thereabouts were limited, the old Squire, who loved music and who was himself a fair singer, had advised us to go.
Five of us, together with our two young neighbors, Kate and Thomas Edwards, drove over to Bagdad in a three-seated pung sleigh. The old schoolhouse was crowded with young people when we arrived, and a babel of voices burst on us as we drew rein at the door.
After helping the girls from the pung, Addison and I put up the horses at a farmer's barn near by.
When we again reached the schoolhouse, a gigantic man in an immense, shaggy buffalo coat was just coming up.
He entered the building a step behind us. It was Bear-Tone; and a great hush fell on the young people as he appeared in the doorway.
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