| Description | Letter from Maggie Gray, The School House, Crimond, to Robert Laws, regarding fine weather; walking with Etta; no choir practice as Mr. Clubb has a bad cold; hymn-singing in the schoolhouse with Etta playing; visit to Auld Jul who is not well; worship at schoolhouse and reading pious papers; Dr. Irvine's good sermon; Mr. Campbell preaching in Crimond; Mr. Seymour a distraction in church; more fine weather; Robert's good health; visit of Mrs. and Miss Robertson from Lonmay; Etta talking in class; efforts to control her; Etta complaining of this to her cousin Mary; Mary not well but helps her father and Miss Nicol, the assistant teacher, with 90 pupils at Lonmay school; Mary agreeing that talking in class is not allowed, much to Etta's disgust; Mr. Robertson also siding with Maggie; letter from Charlie. |