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As we got older, we were moved to the Haye du Puits. Now that was Jurat Roussel’s house, the Haye du Puits, at that time. He lived there with his daughter who acted as his housekeeper. First of all we started in what was called the Hall. This was hung with tapestries and paintings and all sorts. And the trouble was, children used to flick, we had the old ink wells on the desk ,so we used to flick wads of blotting paper at the paintings on the wall. There were 60 children in that class, and the master, Mr Reynolds, used to sit at the end with his desk, with his cane on top of his desk and his little dog sitting by the side of the desk. He was very good, actually. How he controlled such a motley mob I don’t know, because there was a wide age range. I was about 9 or 10 when I went there and there were boys of up to 14, and girls, you know, varying in ages just the same.
ARTHUR KLEIN

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