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professors. It will take the place of many a punish-
ment. It will fix attention and shorten toil. Tt will
win the froward and melt the stubborn. In a word, it
will, in almost every instance, insure a good school. |
Fondness for the company of the children led Carl
to pass many of his hours with them when they were
not at their tasks. He could not indeed, like some
teachers, give them any expensive entertainments.
Poor fellow, it was as much as he could do to pro-
cure food and raiment; and but for the generous friend-
ship of the Smiths, he would have felt the pinching of
want, But his inventive mind led him to a number of
cheap means for communicating pleasure. Sometimes,
on a Saturday afternoon, they would stroll together
over the woods and meadows, and come home laden
with flowers and minerals, which Dr. Smith taught
Carl to arrange. Lessons in natural history were turned
to account at odd hours; and there is no pursuit which
is more inviting to youth, none which exercises their
faculties in a safer way, and none which admits of more
ready connection with divine truth. Carl often amused
the listening group with pleasant stories out of the
Greek and Latin books which he was studying; which
he found to have a good effect in fixing in his own
memory what he had been reading. ‘The very youngest
of them soon became acquainted with Cyrus and the
Persians, and could tell the anecdote of the two coats,
as related by Xenophon. They could point out Troy