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entering them. I say nothing, because there is no need of
saying anything, about the matter of health, about the tastes
and habits of mind and body likely to be found in such places.
If our little ones drink out of such troughs, they must of
necessity become, mentally and morally, " ringstreaked and
spotted."

Then some of our localities have no place, good, bad or in-
different, which can be procured for Public School purposes.
The second town in the County had no Public School in it
last year, cannot have any Public School in it this year, for
there is literally no place in which to have it.

If I may be allowed to make a suggestion in this connec-
tion, I would say, that in the absence of any other means,
furnished by the Legislature or otherwise, it would be wise
to suspend the Schools in this county altogether, for two or
three years, and spend the whole money in the erection of
School houses. The children during those years would not
go wholly without schooling. Some provision would be made
in the way of private Schools. Then when Public Schools
did start, they might be what they ought to be, and what
they do not now even seem to be.

The question might arise about the law in this connection.
The Legislature, if they will not give the money, might give
authority to the State Board of Education, to do as they deem
expedient. If not, then the law is, there must be six months
School. That is, by law this county must go for a consider-
able time without proper School houses. By law, the money,
little enough at least, must be to a very considerable extent
thrown away. All that remains is the same fact, we very
much need School houses.

Of course, only the people who have Schools know the
value of them. It is not therefore to be wondered at, if the
desire for good Schools does not here amount to anything like
a longing. If it did, we should soon illustrate the old maxim:
" Where there is a will, there is a way." We are not how-
ever without some progress. Two School houses have been
put in thorough order, and brought up to the standard.
Some five or six are in process of construction, all to be paid
for, when the county can pay.

Again, all the children do not go to School even when
they might go. The people, many of them, will not send
their children to School more than six weeks, or two months
out of a year. The Fall work keeps them well into winter,
and Spring work begins before winter is well over. In some
respect we are a very enterprising people. One teacher left
last spring, School and all, to go to make maple sugar. In
remonstrating with the people once for not sending the child-
ren to School, one man spoke out and asked '' When or how
he was ever to make anything out of his boys ?" I am still
of the opinion, there should be some law regulating this