The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

All of us children were sent to the public school as soon as we were old enough. There was no urgency required to get us off in the morning, as we were too fond of books and reading to be found lagging as to time, neither were we often caught at the tail of a class. Fred was p...