CHAPTER IV.
GO TO BOARDING-SCHOOL .-- AGE, 12.
During my childhood there were no public schools in Pennsylvania.

The State was pretty well supplied with colleges for boys, while girls were permitted to go to subscription schools.

To these we were sent part of the time, and in one of them Joseph Caldwell, afterwards a prominent missionary to India, was a schoolmate.

But we had Dr.Black's sermons, full of grand morals, science and history.
In lieu of colleges for girls, there were boarding-schools, and Edgeworth was esteemed one of the best in the State.

It was at Braddock's Field, and Mrs.Olever, an English woman of high culture, was its founder and principal.