Excerpt from A Village Class for Drawing and Wood Carving: Hints to Teachers The laird kindly gave the use of a room which had been the village school before a new building had been set up by the School Board. Some old tables and forms were borrowed, until, after a year or two, by means of a 'penny Reading, ' sufficient funds were raised to have two excellent steady tables made by a village carpenter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.