In my eyes, on that first morning, it shone with a wonderful light, a strange glory that penetrated every corner, and made the stained logs fair as tinted marble; and the windows were not too small to afford me a view of a large new world.
Room was made for the new pupils on the bench, beside the teacher.

We found our inkwells, which were simply hollows scooped out in the thick table top.

Reb' Isaiah made us very serviceable pens by tying the pen points securely to little twigs; though some of the pupils used quills.

The teacher also ruled our paper for us, into little squares, like a surveyor's notebook.

Then he set us a copy, and we copied, one letter in each square, all the way down the page.