# School-days in 1800

Author: Guernsey, Lucy Ellen, 1826-1899

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75733

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=School-days+in+1800+Guernsey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I WAS born in the town of Lee, Massachusetts, on the nineteenth day of October, 1781. The day of my birth was the anniversary of my father's forefathers' landing on this continent one hundred years before, and also of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown—a surrender which really closed the Revolutionary war. My father, who was a dragoon all through the Revolution, was present on that occasion, and has often described the scene to us, telling us how the Germans wept as they laid down their arms, and how the British officers showed their bitter feelings by saluting the French officers on the American side, but refusing even to return the salutes of the Americans. It was hard for them, of...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/22/index.md)
- [did. I knew all the time that I was doing wrong; and when I saw the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/1/index.md)
- [book I had long desired to possess.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/school-days-in-1800-75733/chapters/8/index.md)