Editorial note — Chapter VI
Reading edition
¹ It may seem incredible that any teacher could ever have acted as Ida's is stated to have done, but the writer of this story was told, by a highly intelligent girl of similar age, that owing to the system of giving passages of Scripture to be learned as "punishments" for breaches of school rules, she had learned to dislike the very mention of those chapters. It took years to efface the unfortunate impression thus produced, though in time it passed away.