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Bird is described as an
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who taught mathematics, which was no more than
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Heaven knows what languages were taught there. I am sure that neither my sister nor myself brought any out of it but a little of our native English. It was, in fact, a humble day-school. Bird and Cook, he says, were the masters. Bird had
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He then describes the ferule--
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To make him look more formidable--if a pedagogue had need of these heightenings--Bird wore one of those flowered Indian gowns formerly in use with schoolmasters, the strange figures upon which we used to interpret into hieroglyphics of pain and suffering. This is in Lamb's most delightful vein. So, too, with other incidents of the school, especially
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Lamb recollected even his first copy--
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Art improves nature, and could look back with
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In the evening was a short attendance of girls, to which Miss Lamb went, and she recollected the theatricals, and even _Cato_ being performed by the young gentlemen.
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She describes the cast of the characters with relish. 'Martha,' by the handsome Edgar Hickman, who afterwards went to Africa.
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Captain Starkey, the butt of the street-boys and the pensioner of benevolent citizens. In 1818, when he had been an inmate of the Freemen's Hospital, Newcastle, for twenty-six years, the poor old ex-usher of the Fetter Lane school wrote
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The Memoirs of his Life,