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Excerpt from Voyages of Nicholas Ball, From 1838 to 1853: In Tabulated Form, With Notes, Together With a Summary of a Trip to Europe in 1888
At the age of eight years he began to attend a private school, very primitive, and in session only about half the year. His text-books we're the old English Reader, Webster's Spelling Book, and Daboll's Arith metic; his schoolmates preferred; play to work; but his teacher was an earnest lady of rare tact, and the boy performed his tasks carefully and conscientiously, making rapid progress. His two ciphering books, aggre gating nearly four hundred pages of foolscap, are still preserved, and are filled with the solutions of problems, accompanied by statements of prin ciples and rules, and interspersed with well-drawn pictures of full-rigged ships They show no sign'oi the trait which some people manifest in starting a diary with minute fidelity, and day by day giving it less atten tion for to the very last page there was no diminution of the care with which every letter or figure-was made, and the heading of every subject or page ornamented and shaded. It may be doubted if two books of this size were ever filled so carefully by one so young.
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