16 THE WILD-FLOWERS OF SELBORNE 



tion." And as there were no chapels, so neither was 

 there any recognised school. " Selborne," he adds, 

 "is not able to maintain a schoolmaster; here are 

 only two or three dames, who pick up a small pittance 

 by teaching little children to read, knit, and sew." It 

 is interesting to know that after White's death it was 

 proposed to build a village school as a memorial to the 

 historian of Selborne. The scheme was never carried 

 out, but a sketch lately found in the village of the 

 proposed building forms a fitting frontispiece to the 

 present volume. 



