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Two of three weeks ago, his highness Mr. Littlefield conceived it his duty to leave his own special charge, and visit my humble scene of labours, he came in, a quarter before eleven at my request heard a class passe, then during the space of an hours by my watch, he lectured my scholars, using great plainness of speech' reminding them of all their misdoings both actual and possible, telling them over and over, what they must do in order to get into Mr. Littlefields' school, inviting them to come in, a class at a time, into his school, to see how orderly, studious, still and well arranged it was; my scholars were very still, and perfectly attentive, though his speech was so long; when he returned to his own school he told them he had been absent so long because he was needed more than with them, that he found my scholars behaving rather badly, so he stayed to talk to them; this I heard from Mary Bartlett our boarder and his scholar 16 years old; she said his school carried on, bad enough while he was gone Lorraine M. getting into the desk and mimicking him &c. I can't conceive why he should say so, and to his scholars too, except his notorious habit and policy of carrying it in the light to his scholars, that their school is considerably better in every respect than any other. I thought his conduct almost an imposition - Mr. Walker laughed about it said he should like to quiz him a little in the paper, for leaving his own school to inspect and lecture others, proposing his own as a model. - He teaches a class in French this term though it is not according to the wishes of the committee to have any but common branches taught there, he addresses his class on all occasions as Mademoiselle this, or that - bah! Tues 1st - I will relate a little school occurrence for Lucy's gratification, last Friday night I kept Susan Bounds after school to talk to her for disorderly conduct after reasoning, threatening &c. I dismissed her, - in going out, she muttered something which I did not hear, I called her back, but she marched straight on, I sent a girl to speak to her to come back, she said she did not care what Miss Rich said, and went on; - the next morning I called her up in order to punish her when she said, 'Mother told me if you ferruled me, to bring your books home', I told her to take her books home and not come anymore, and wrote a note to her Mother that I should consider her no longer member of the school, which I sent by another girl; Mond, morn Susan came again accompanied by her grown up sister who said she was sorry Susan had behaved so bad and wanted me to take her again; I told her that if her Mother really sent the word that was brought me I should decline receiving her again for that I considered myself the proper judge whether one of my scholars deserves punishment, and that her mother had chosen such a want of competence in me that I though she would be better satisfied to send her to some other school, she rather disclaimed her mother of having sent me the word, and urged me to