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Ellen would remark roguishly . One day about the first of February , Catherine Edwards made the rounds of the neighborhood with a subscription paper to get singers for a singing school . A veteran `` singing master '' -- Seth Clark , well known throughout the country -- had offered to give the young people of the place a course of twelve evening lessons or sessions in vocal music , at four dollars per evening ; and Catherine was endeavoring to raise the sum of forty-eight dollars for this purpose . Master Clark was to meet us at the district schoolhouse for song sessions of two hours , twice a week , on Tuesday and Friday evenings at seven o'clock . Among us at the old Squire 's we signed eight dollars . The singing school did not much interest me personally , for the reason that I did not expect to attend . As the Frenchman said when invited to join a fox hunt , I had been .