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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
[CH. X. 
nominated, admitted, dismissed, or chosen apprentices by 
the Rector or curate. Like the Rectory, which was often 
called the “ Isle of Roads/’ the school stood at the entrance 
roads to the village, and was surrounded by roads. The 
lads wore the usual blue-coat costume, and were admirably 
taught the three R’s by the schoolmaster, Mr. Chapman, 
a very intelligent man, whom Buckland employed to 
survey and measure out the allotments which he started, 
and also to keep record of their respective yields. Mrs. 
Buckland, in spite of serious remonstrances from neigh¬ 
bours and friends, gave the boys instruction in geography 
and the use of the globes, which she had made of paper 
and inflated, showing them at the same time on the map 
the homes of foreign products, and supplying specimens of 
the sugarcane, the tea tree, and other articles of daily use. 
Many amusing letters did she receive, protesting against 
such unnecessary teaching, which was only supposed to put 
foolish notions into children’s heads. However, the keen 
interest which she awakened in their minds led ultimately 
to the emigration of several labourers and other families to 
Australia, where they have done well and have become 
landed proprietors. One or two have revisited their native 
town from time to time, but only to see their friends, and 
soon returned to their new possessions. Outfits were 
provided, and the Dean himself secured their passages, 
and commended them to the care of the captain. He 
also packed cuttings from gooseberry and currant trees in 
tin boxes filled with honey and soldered down to exclude 
the air—a mode of packing that answered well, and the 
emigrants had the pleasure of seeing fruit trees from Islip 
