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WANS FORD, NO'l TS. 



of Wansford in Northamptonshire. At the time of his 

 birth, his father was a saddler and harness-maker, but 

 he afterwards gave up the business and took a small 

 inn in the village, and also farmed about eighty acres of 

 land. The time came when young Peach had to be sent 

 to school. He first went to a dame's school, where he 

 speedily learned the ABC. After that he was sent to 



WANSFORD, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 



the village school, the master of which had been an old 

 sawyer. The man could no longer saw, but it was thought 

 he might teach. In those days any worn-out broken- 

 legged man was thought good enough to be a school- 

 master. The old sawyer knew very little about spelling. 

 There was not a grammar-book about the school. 



But as old Mr. Peach was anxious to make his son a 

 scholar, Charles was taken from the old sawyer's school 

 at twelve years old, and sent to a school at Folkingham, 

 in Lincolnshire. There he made better progress. He 



