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WITH ENGLISH PEASANTS.
can give to England's peasantry the intelligence, the self-respect, the self-reliance, the home comfort which makes Northumbria a land of Goshen in our agricultural Egypt?
Changes wide and deep may be in store for us, but this we know—they will all be delusive without the aid of the schoolmaster.
"From the pains
And faithful care of unambitious schools,
Instructing simple childhood's ready ear,
Thence look for these beneficent results."
