Horatio Alger

Brave and Bold Horatio Alger

The main schoolroom in the Millville Academy was brilliantly lighted, and the various desks were occupied by boys and girls of different ages from ten to eighteen, all busy writing under the general direction of Professor George W. Granville. Professor Granville was a traveling teacher, and generally had two or three evening schools in prog ress in different places at the same time. At nine, precisely, Professor Granville struck a small bell, and said in rather a nasal voice.