nk, how | to enjoy them, Did you ever know a
healthy youth who did not like to spend
such days out of doors? Especially at large
schools, where they have not their parents to go to,
young persons seek recreation in the fields and woods.
Here they learn a thousand things which are useful to
them in after-life. It is not the least important of
their education. For this reason those schools are
best where the pupils have a wide range of meadow
and grove, pleasant brooks, and safe bathing-places.
This was remarkably true of the Oaks, which was so
called on account of a number of great and ancient
trees, relics of the forest, which were scattered in
clumps upon the hill-side in front of the house. It.
_ had been the seat of an old English family before the
_ Revolution, and bore many characteristic marks of the

aristocratic mansion. The spacious but irregular house