...but a ehild. Though it eost the sehoolmaster some thrashings, I made an exeellent English seholar, and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a eritie in substantives, verbs, and partieles, [n iny infant and boyish days, toe, I owed mueh to an...

...but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar, and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a eritic in substantives, verbs, and particles." The farming at Mount Oliphant did not prosper ; the...

...but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles. In my infant and boyish days, loo, I owed much to an old woman...

...his opportunities, meagre as they were, may be judged from the fact that he says of himself, " When I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs and particles." The most admirable trait in Burns's character is his filial devotion....

...Though it COM the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time 1 .C. Griggs and Company substantives, verbs, and participle*. In my infant and boyish days, too, 1 owed much to an old woman...

...with anybody ; that though it cost the master some thrashings, " I made an excellent English scholar, and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles." Also we are told that in the family resided a certain old woman...

...own statement of his schoolboy accomplishments : ' I made,' he says, ' an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.' It was William Burnes, however, that was in the true sense of...

...Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time 1 was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, 1 owe much to an old woman who...

...but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar, and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. . . . The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure...

..."Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings," says Burns, "I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owe much to an old woman who...