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filled with cotton wrapped hothouse peaches. The woman wore 

 the neat lace cap and broad silver head piece of her district. 



Out from a side lane, to the fountain darted two wooden shoed 

 children. The elder, a girl, held her mouth beneath the drip, then, 



Rural School at the Thorn wald sen 

 Museum, Copenhagen. 



The lead-:r is a candidate for a teacher's certificate. His 

 success depends upon his proving by the compositions of 

 these blue eyed, yellow haired bairns that he has the ability 

 to impart knowledge on such walks. When told that we had 

 no such institutions in the schools of my town, his eyes 

 brightened and he said: "Now I understand why I read of 

 American boys being restless in school. Ours are so happy 

 they never grow tired." 



filling her wooden shoe, handed this strange loving cup to her wee 

 brother, too short to reach the drop])ing nectar. 



It seemed so different from America. A few sciiiarcs awa>' was 

 the village museum. It included tlic accumulations of w^ars of 



