M THE COUNTRY, BOZ 



The method she taught was hke all really 

 great inventions — it was simple ; and I have to 

 smile now when I think that no one thought of 

 it before. It was better perhaps for a transient 

 teacher to teach than one regular in the city — 

 in fact, it took a brave person to buy property 

 and settle down on such a method. The first 

 day I came with a quart of warm milk; that 

 is, I started with a quart of milk, but the side- 

 walks were very poor in Silverton then. I 

 reached her home and prepared for the lesson. 

 She gave me a sort of a lecture first on music, 

 said that it had come to stay, that it would soon 

 be counted as a part of every first-class educa- 

 tion, and that it got easier as one progressed. 

 Then she produced a large music book with 

 the notes all numbered. The keys of her organ 

 were numbered, and then with an indelible 

 pencil she numbered my finger nails, and I took 

 the stool; and while she counted time with a 

 short smooth pointer — "One, Two, Three, 

 Four," I began to get in touch with the various 

 numbers ; and as I was fairly good in numbers 

 up to seven, I progressed so rapidly that after 

 the second lesson she gave me a chance on a re- 

 duced course in classical music, which was to 



