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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Recollections of my childhood. (search)
f broad gauze ribbon were placed between the crown which resembled a tin quart measure, and the front which was like a large tunnel. These bonnets were worn long after the fashion had passed away and given place to the small cottage bonnet or other forms. What a bonanza one of them would be now! Also a fourpence ha'penny or a ninepence! School memories crowd upon me too: first a private one kept by Miss Caroline Pratt, then the public school, taught by Miss Ford; and another by Miss Almira Seymour, who one May Day, formed a procession of her scholars, and marched through several streets, preceding them as the Queen of the may, with a long green barge veil hanging down at her back, and a wreath of flowers on her head. Perhaps that dusty march was responsible for my change of schools, as I was sent then to a private school kept by Miss Nancy Gibson in the rear part of a chapel on Austin street. In a small room adjoining was a trundle-bed where two or three of the very little c