surrounded by pavements, and shaded by large sycamore trees. In the
engraving just referred to, the spectator stands in one of these
courts, looking over a low wall into the other. For the top of the
lower sash, we have another building, extending across the premises.
The left half of this appearing on page 131, behind the trees, and
on the opposite page represented without them, was the first home of
Dr. Perkins, and is now the Female Seminary; but repeated additions
and modifications have been required to transform a building,
originally erected for a private residence, into a structure
suitable for such a school.

Miss Fiske first taught in one room of a building to the right,
which does not appear in the engraving, though a part of it is seen
on page 131; then, as the school grew larger, another room was
added, and when those quarters became too strait, this building was
remodelled for its use.

[Illustration: Female seminary at Oboomiah]

As we shall have a good deal to do with the Seminary in these pages,
let us become familiar with its home. Between the central door and
the one on the left, those three windows belong to a large room once
used as a chapel, but since then as a guest room for the
accommodation of the women whom we shall see coming here to learn of
Jesus. In this room, Nestorian converts first partook of the Lord's
supper with the missionaries. The left of the three windows directly
over these, with the rose-bush in it, belongs to Miss Fiske's
private room, and the other two to her sitting room. This the pupils
have named "The Bethel," and it is so connected that the teacher can
step into recitation room, dining room, or kitchen, as occasion