188 SCHOOL DUTIES. 
prayer and praise ; conclude with the same. 
Monday, recital of weekly tasks, reading the 
Holy Scriptures, writing, arithmetic, and class 
spelling. Tuesday, the same as on Monday. 
Wednesday, reading in history and geography, 
transcribing select portions of Scripture, &c. 
Thursday, similar to Monday and Tuesday. 
And on Friday, which is the busiest day of the 
week, transcribing words with their definitions 
from Walker's Dictionary ; read hymns, or 
rather devotional and moral poetry ; repeat 
Watts's, and the Church Catechism; arithme- 
tical tables, &c. &c. ; and emulative spelling 
concludes the whole : we are generally an hour 
longer at school on this day than any other. 
On Wednesday afternoon the elder scholars 
attend the Bible class, with their parents, On 
the Sabbath, Divine Service is performed twice, 
and all who can possibly attend do so. 
" If the request is not improper, will you, 
honoured Sir, procure for us some copy-slips, or 
models for writing, and a few of Walkingame's 
Arithmetic, with a Key to the same? for we often 
hear our Teacher say, if he had these helps, his 
work would be much easier; and we heartily 
wish he could obtain the means of making it 
so." 
Before the engagement of Mr. Nobbs's ser- 
vices as a teacher, Mr. John Buffett, who had 
arrived at the island in the year 1823, afforded 
his assistance in the school and chapel. The 
life of BufFett has been one of remarkable ad- 
venture. In 1815, when a youth on board ( 
H.M.S. Penelope, bound from England for 
