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A copy of an original photograph, formerly attached to the typescript copy of Peter Fisher's \"Some Jottings along my lifes journey / Burlington 15th Dec. 1881. His grandson Murray W. Fisher's edition of this work, published by the Burlington Historical Society in 1983, did not include this photograph. The digital scan is taken from a reprint photograph in Murray W. Fisher, Memoirs, unpublished typescript, April 1977, p. 11-13: \" SCHOOL DAYS I was privileged: I attended an open-concept school in 1902, in plain words an old-fashioned one-room rural school with eight grades and one teacher.... There were two students to each desk with separate high-backed stools bolted to the floor, 2 ink wells and a small shelf for slates, a reader book, a speller and a copy book. By the time my turn for school came, every desk had initials of previous occupants carved in them, sometimes pretty fancy and always hard to write over.... Occasionally on a Friday the teacher would arrange for a debate for which four older students would be coached. We were taught to follow parilamentary rules in debating; the teacher said one of us might be in Parliament some day. That rather scared us. Such titles as \"Town versus Country LIfe\" were common, and the teacher was the sole judge. And I do not know of one of us going to Parliament. A rectangular stove stood in the centre of the room, which took 4-foot logs and usually left coals for the morning. But you either froze or cooked depending whereee you sat. A library of about 200 books, getting well dog-eared by my day, seldom added to, but they were good books. Books writtten by Ernest Seton Thomson [Ernest Thompson Seton] were always favorites. Two cloak rooms for coats and lunches and always a pail of drinking water with a tin mug on a nail, completed the furnishings. The school well tasted of sulphur; consequently two boys were sent every morning (and in school hours too, which was the attraction) to bring a pail of water for the day from the nearest Farms and Farming. Often, there would be only half a pail on arrival. Outside in the one-acre yard was a drive shed where we played on wet days. Two privies, one at each side. There was no daylight in the priivies, which was a good thing. It was pretty risky being an occupant at recess, as there was usually a barrage of stones banging on the door. Oh yes, and there was a wood shed, another play place. Two boys received seven cents a day for lighting fires and twelve cents for sweeping and dusting the school. All this may sound rather primitive to modern educationists, but to me it was a wonder place. Some might question how we survived the sanitary arrangements, but the only sickness I remember was mumps and measless, and the only dropouts were when some Children and youth had to stay home to plant or pick up potatoes.... I hope today's schools are doing a better job than 75 years ago, but I have nothing but fond memories of one wonderful lady teacher, MIss Margaret Howse, and the boys and girls of those days. \" -- Murray Fisher, 1977"},{"label":"Contributor","value":"Murray Fisher"},{"label":"Creator","value":"unknown"},{"label":"Date","value":"ca 1900"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1900"},{"label":"Title","value":"S. S. # 4 Nelson, Fishers Corners School, formally named Nelson Grove Academy, ca 1900"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"S. 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