110 WHAT MAKES THE HAPPY TEACHER ?

have a boy to look on his future course with the eyes
of an old man! God never intended it. Attempt to
rear a child on this plan, and you violently and cruelly
resist Providence. No, no! If you would make men
of them, send your boys to a school where they shall
have wide range, free exercise, and where the .teachers
shall not be in perpetual fear lest they break their necks,
If observation teaches me anything, it is, that they will
study all the better for it. But here is my colleague,
Mr. Cole, who takes my seat of inspection, while I go
to correct the Latin exercises.”

Mr. Cole was a tall, raw-boned young man, who had
lately taken the place of second usher in Dr. Newman’s
school, His eyes were deeply set in his head, and he
wore spectacles. His smile was so reluctant and sour,
that the boys used to say he laughed with the wrong
side of his mouth. Yet he was a conscientious and
a learned young man, and had gained a number of prizes
for solving tough problems in mathematics,

He approached the bay-window, in which the visitor
was seated, and made a very angular and jerking bow.
It was well meant, and Miss Hotchkin received it in
good part, though she could not help saying to herself,
“How much some people fail in the graces of life,
by overdoing matters and not letting themselves
alone !”

“This spot,” said Mr. Cole, “is one on which I must
intrude, as it is the only one which commands a view of