thrown into the Lan- caster county prison, but as the prose- cutors had to pay his prison boarding they soon relented, and he was liber- ated. He returned to Philadelphia. H e nr y Cou r tney bel onged t o t hi s class of teachers, and the following short biographical sketch is by one of his former

the assistant teachers �would have to go into the loft of the brick school house, pull the bell-rope himself and ring in school. The annual examinations of the school had by this time become a holi- day for the villagers and neighbors. Old and young crowded the church on those occasions to see the