They walked along upon this road, for about three quarters of a mile, until at last they came in sight of the school-house.

Marco spied it first.
"There," said Marco, "that is the school-house." "How do you know that that is the one ?" asked Forester.
"Oh, I know the Jones district very well," said Marco.
In New England the tract of country included within the jurisdiction of a town, is divided into districts for the establishment and support of schools.

These districts are called school-districts, and each one is generally named from some of the principal families that happen to live in it.

It happened that there were several families of the name of Jones that lived in this part of the town, and so their district was called the Jones district.
"How do you happen to know it ?" said Forester.
"Oh, I came out here two or three times with Thomas Jones to set my squirrel trap," said Marco.

"There goes Thomas Jones now." "Where ?" asked Forester.
"There," said Marco, pointing along the road a little way.
Forester looked forward, and saw in the road before them a boy walking toward the school-house, with his slate under his arm.