ates were
propitious. The first women schoolteachers in America evolved in
Connecticut. Miss Brooks was a schoolteacher, the daughter of a farmer
for whom Danforth Armour worked as hired man.

Danforth was given to boasting a bit as to the part his ancestors had
played as neighbors to Oliver Cromwell at the time, and the only time,
when England was a republic.

Miss Brooks did not like this kind of talk and told the young man so
straight at his red head. The Brooks family was Scotch, too, but they
had fought on the side of Royalty. They were never rebels--they were
true to the King--exactly so!

Now, there are two kinds of Scotch--the fair and the dark--the Highland
and the Lowland--the Aristocrats and the Peasantry. Miss Brooks was
dark, and she succeeded in convincing the freckled and sandy-haired man
that he was of a race of rebels, also that the rule of the rebels was
brief--brief, my lord, as woman's love. Then they argued as to the
alleged brevity of woman's love.

Here they were getting on dangerous ground. Nature is a trickster, and
she spread her net and caught the Highland maid and the Lowland laddie,
and bound them with green withes as is her wont. So they were married by
the Congregational "meenister," and for a wedding-tour fared forth
Westward to fame and fortune. "Out West" then meant York State, and the
"Far West" was Ohio. They reached Oneida County, New York, and stopped
for a few days ere they pushed on to the frontier. The site was
beautiful, the location favorable. And the farmer at whose house they
were making their stay was restless and wanted to sell out.

That night the young couple talked it over. They had a few hundred
dollars saved, sewed in a belt and in a dress bodice. They got the money
out and recounted it. In the morning they told their host how much money
they had and offered to give him all of this money for his farm. He was
to leave them a yoke of oxen, a cow, a pig and six sheep.

He accepted the offer, the money was paid, the deed made out and the man
vacated, leaving the bride and groom in possession.

So here they lived their lives; here they worked, planned, aspired and
prospered; here, too, their children were born and raised; and down at
the little village cemetery they sleep, side by side. In life they were
never separated and in death they are not divided.

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"The first requisite in education," said Herbert Spencer, "is that m