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myself teaching in two schools. I went to Columbia only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My salary was $85 a month. I needed more to do and besides, as Belle knew, I was casting about for some way to earn more money. When she was advised that the Brooklyn Heights Academy for Girls had an opening for an art teacher, she recommended me for the position. This filled out the week. The school, an old brownstone, stood in a lovely section of Brooklyn, on Montague Street, not far from the Saint George hotel. One of my pupils was a wispy, brown-haired little creature with a dreamy, fey manner, Nathalia Crane, the poetess. She had already started writing and not many years were to elapse before she published her charming work, "The Janitor's Boy," which attracted wide attention. She was equally talented in drawing. I believe that if she had concentrated in that instead of writing she might have become a fine artist. In liesure hours, I strolled around Brooklyn in flat-heeled walking shoes, discovering the city.