A history of public education in Rhode Island, from 1636 to 1876 ... Comp. by authority of the Board of education, and ed. by Thomas B. Stockwell ...

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would catch the echo of the first, and with the roguish boys in their boat joining
in the general chorus, shouting at the top of their voices,' Boys,' too. Thus
on many a bright morning, with a call, clear atmosphere, has there been a confusion of sounds over that, at times, crystal sheet of water, far surpassing the
efforts of the most gifted ventriloquist. What effect these interferences of the
boys, or the echoes, had upon the old schoolmaster's disposition and temper,
I never heard." *
* Address at the dedication of the school-house erected by the trustees of Long
Wharf, at Newport, I. I., p. 18.