126 TEACHING AND TRAINING.

Mr. Cole, no amount of hard words will drive Greek
verbs into a boy’s head.”

“Ah, I see your drift! You overheard me berating
Bolton yesterday ; but what should I have done?”

“ Let me tell you what I would have done. I would
have sat down by him half an hour in the verandah
with a Greek grammar, and would have shown him
how to get the lesson. I would have got it with him.
The method thus attained would then be his own for
life. And so of everything else.”

“That reminds me of what we read in the school,
that Julius Cesar did not commonly say to his soldiers,
Go! but Come! For he went before.”

“ Yes, and when he meant to punish them, he ceased
to call them commilitones, or fellow-soldiers. But we
must turn our horses’ heads homeward, and if you are
for a gallop, I will try to suit the action to the word,
and show you how to go over the ground more speedily
than you ever did before.”

“I thank you for your teaching and your training,”
answered Cole. But the words were scarcely audible,
for his hair was soon streaming in the wind, and I know
not but be would have cried to his lively companion
to halt if he had not been restrained by shame. As it
was they reached the Oaks in safety, and were soon
exemplifying their principles amidst the hum and buzz
of a well-filled school-room.