VI.

dork and Blay.

WAR. NEWMAN, Mr. Barry, and Mr. Cole had

been talking all one afternoon about the

   

right way of mixing up amusement with
instruction. They all agreed that the
thing might be carried too far, and that
it would never do to have spelling lessons
in gingerbread, and philosophy in games at cards.
Still the doctor admitted that there was an extreme
on the other side; for, said he, every valley lies between
two hills, and I would not have Jack a dull boy. I
would not keep the pupil always grave, always tense,
always feeling the bit, always in heavy harness. But
my maxim is, When you work, work; when you play,
play. Do not try to variegate your common lessons
too much, because part of the discipline of all education
is to keep the mind at one thing, to hold it in one
place, and to learn to do and to bear things which at
first were disagreeable.

“Would you not,” said Mr. Barry, who was parti-