19th. You must write a letter to be corrected and sent home to your friends once in four weeks—except excused. You must not write a careless note, or any careless writing. You must write a composition once in a fortnight, of 200 words. You must write at least 30 good lines in a week. 20th. You must have a lesson ready to recite when you first come into school. 21st. You must come in or go out of the school in a quiet genteel manner—you must not talk or laugh loud in the street. [Illustration: PL. XLIII.—WHITE LACE VEIL WORKED BY MARY PECK AND WORN BY HER AT HER WEDDING ] 22nd. You must not wear your party dresses, or any handsome lace, neither your best hats or shawls to school. 23rd. You must not walk for pleasure after 9 o’clock in the evening. A reward will be given to those who do not waste any money, books, clothes, paper or quills, during the term. To those who have their duties performed at the proper time. To those who have not been peevish, homesick or impolite. To those who always attend meeting or church. To those who never write carelessly. CUSTOM OF EXCHANGING CHILDREN. A custom quite general in New England in the early part of this century, there being no boarding schools, was that of friends in different parts of the country exchanging children for a certain length of time, shorter or longer. The advantages were sometimes for the sake of change of air, and sometimes for the intellectual training of the children and are known to have worked well. The following extract from a letter from one of the pupils on the list of 1825, now living, makes the custom more clear. “My connection with the school was only for two or three months and rather accidental. A friend of my mother wishing to send a young son to New Haven for the summer of 1825 Proposed an exchange of children for the time. I was a child of such slender form and far from vigorous and my parents were glad to send me into the country. Hoping the fine climate of Litchfield would benefit me, yet not wishing me to study; but as I wanted something to do I was permitted to attend Miss Pierce’s school with the daughter of Judge Wollcott in whose family I was staying.” Extract from a paper read May 4, 1896, before the Village Library Company of Farmington, on “Farmington Society One Hundred Years Ago,” by Julius Gay.