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And where could a room for the school be found ? And where was the leisure time to come from ? Noll pondered over these questions many days , and several times came near discarding the plan as impracticable . He knew that he could only have the time after recitations were over for his own , and that , at the most , would be only an hour or two , -- the time between four o'clock and the supper-hour . He was quite sure that he was willing to give this time to the Culm children , if it would do any good , and if a room could be found for them to assemble in . A whole week of days went by before he mentioned this plan to any one , and then it was only Dirk to whom he mentioned it . The rough fisherman looked upon reading and writing as some of the wonderful and mysterious arts to which dull and humble people like himself had no right .