...to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and logded at the houses of the farmers, whose children he instructed....apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and...

...instructed. With these he lived successively a week at a time ; thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief....apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and...

...the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways...He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms ; helped to make hay ; mended the fences ; took the horses to water ; drove the...

...the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways...He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms ; helped to make hay Amended the fences ;j took the horses to water ; drove the...

...instructed. With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief....this might not be too onerous on the purses of his fustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters...

...instructed. With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief....apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and...

...instructed. With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief....apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and...

...the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. Ht? assisted the fanners occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms ; helped to make hay ; mended...

...Washington Irving's ' Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' at the end of paragraph 12 (beginning with the words, That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons "). we find the words : " like the lion bold which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold." From...

...instructed. With these he lived successively a week at a time ; thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief....apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and...