112 WHAT MAKES THE HAPPY TEACHER ?

looks on his situation here with eyes very different from
mine.” And here Mr. Cole wiped his spectacles.

~ “You are very right, Mr. Cole. This way of en-
couraging freedom and mirth in striplings, and letting
them vault over fences, run like wild goats, and bellow
like oxen, is a way I was not brought up to.- And as
to teaching them, I can judge what it is by an attempt
I made to teach a chambermaid of ours to read; my
temper was so curdled by her stupidity, that we never
got beyond the alphabet. But what’ success has Mr.
Barry on his plan ?”

“ Oh, better than I can account for. No classes show
better than his. Indeed, truth forces me to say that
his pupils make extraordinary progress.”

“ Perhaps it is because they like him so much.”

“JT daresay that is it, madam. They will do any-
thing for him, though he is perfectly inexorable as to
his rules and regulations, and, in some respects, is the
strictest man in the house. But he has singular ways
of interesting them in their work. Indeed, he seems
to be actually interested himself, and goes over a
geography lesson with as much zest as if he were the
youngest among them, and were getting the lesson with
them.”

“ That is singular, indeed ; but it shows how light
his labour is.” |

“It does, Miss Hotchkin. And all this is in great
contrast to my case ; for I go into school with the spirit