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x3 v t* > N -v* -I-. m M r ;' ATTENDING SCHOOL IN '46. Written for The Times bjr J. H. Coltharp. While sitting in a store-room at 2 o'clock one afternoon not long since where there were several men talking on different subjects, several chaps passed going home from school. One of the men remarked that the teachers of the present day do not put in half the day in the school room. Another one of the party remarked that under the present method of teaching it will take a boy or girl at least 30 years to get an education. Well, we thnncrhf hie aeeorfir n f *> flior exaggerated and quite amusing. On my way home I thought over what I had heard about schools, etc., and my mind wandered back to my school-boy days. The first school I attended was in 1845. The next in '46, being the most notable, I will give some of my recollections of it in this letter. It was taught by Mr. Meredith Shurly in a' house about half a mile south of where J. P. Epps now lives. It was organized by Stephen Pettus (who was killed on the 6th of March following by one of his negro men). The school was to run for 12 months, as it invariably took 12 months to make a year in those days. School j opened the 23rd day of January and was run 7 days per week without any interruption until the 18th day of December following. .The principal books used in that school were the blueback speller, the Old and New Testaments, Webster's dictionary, Pike's, Smylie's and Gough's arithmetics. My elder brother, then 23 years old, had not been to school but a few months and could barely write his name. Professor Shurly gave him lessons in the blue-back speller and Pike's arithmetic. Shurly boarded at my father's that year and during the fall and winter months he and brother started to school at 5 a. m., carrying a pine torch for a light. They never got home until near dark. Brother worked through Pike's, Smylie's and a good portion of Gough's arithmetic* that vp.iv 115c arithmetical problems were written in blank books he got for that purpose. We still have them in our possession. There were several young men and young ladies attending that school. The names of the men were M. N., S. H. and Lark Johnson. W. M. and Erwin Sutton, H. H. Coltharp, G. H. Pettus. The young ladies were the Misses N. J., M. A. and Susan Knox, Betsy Harget, Louisa Sutton, Ann Pettus and Susan Burton. This latter lady lived in North Carolina at least three miles from the school and while her mother owned slaves and a fine farm, her daughter never rode to school. It was customary in those days for the teacher to treat both patrons and pupils at the closing of the school, and a few days before th close the young men of the school got around Shurly and asked him for a treat on the 18th, but he refused; wouldn't listen to them, and they told him he had to treat or they would take him to the creek at once and duck him, and keep on ducking him until he promised them a treat. So he finally agreed to T J ' i- 1 1 ucau i uun l kiiow wnat ne agreed to treat to, but I have quite a vivid recollection of what we got. On the morning of the 13th my father went off early to Joab Orr's store, which was in the Mount Moriah neighborhood near where the town of Pineville now is, and came back soon, carrying a jug and a peck of something in a sack. It was opened. Shurly had us all seated and went around and gave each of his pupils a handful of sugar; it was of the dark kind. He then put a handful in the water bucket, half full of water, and stirred it up with a gourd (we had no dippers then). Then he poured in a small quantity of the contents of the jug (corn whiskey), stirred it up with the gourd, tasted it, and then poured in some more from the jug, tasted it again, and then passed around with his bucket and gourd and gave each one a sup. I don't remember getting any VnAVO fV- rv - 11 u*w v>x bite IUVIUJ( KUl WC gul <111 the sugar we wanted. I reckon that was the first and fullest mess of sugar wp had pv r had. Of course all of us enjoyed it; it was a big day with us in '46. It is now 64 years since that school was taught. I can now locate only two of the pupils that are living, myself and John C. Campbell, of Charlotte. I NO TREASURE-LADEN SHIP Is likely to come to make Your surest way to wealth i: after what you earn and spe one best way to do this. 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