The Atlantic Monthly, volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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[Continued. ] CHAPTER XXIV. The next day, Monroe went with the artist to good Mr. Holworthy, and proposed to undertake the task of instructing a school. Thepreliminaries were speedily arranged: he was to receive a small weeklystipend, enough, with prudence, to meet his household expenses, andwas to commence at once. Both of the gentlemen accompanied him to thequarter where his labor was to begin. A large room was hired in arickety and forlorn-looking house; the benches for the scholars and asma...ll desk and chair were the only furniture. And such scholars!--fardifferent from the delicate, curled darlings of the private schools. Thenew teacher found his labor sufficiently discouraging. It was nothingless than the civilization of a troop of savages. Everything was to bedone; manners, speech, moral instincts, were all equally depraved. Theywere to be taught neatness, respect, truth-telling, as well as the usualbranches of knowledge. It was like the task of the pioneer settler inthe wilderness, who must uproot trees, drain swamps, burn briers andbrambles, exterminate hurtful beasts, and prepare the soil for thereception of the seeds that are to produce the future harvest.
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