SCHOOL-CHAT IN PLAY-HOURS. - 191

Adler, “ Just see how little patience you have! You
must wait a little, to learn; for patience is only a kind
of waiting. And you are taking a lesson in it now, if
you did but know it. Patience is learned by practising
patience. How did you learn to swim? By trying to |
swim. How did you learn to play ball? By trying
to play. How did you learn to cut the figure 6 on the
ice? By trying and trying again. Tell me, then, how
you are to learn patience 2?”

Charles, “ By trying to be patient.” |

Adler. “Very well. You are an apt scholar, Charles.
Now, observe, half the things we give you to do are

_ helping you to learn this very thing.”

Charles. “How so, sir? Does getting my Latin verb
teach me patience? Stop—you needn’t answer. I see
it myself. For I grow very tired of my verbs some-
times ; and then John Grose says, ‘ With patience and
perseverance one may open an oyster with a rolling-
> §$o I turn to my book again, and at last I know
my verb.” |

pin.

Adler, “Very good, indeed ; though John’s comical ~
proverb-is new to me, it is true. All your hard tasks,
which seem so tedious, are helping you to govern
yourself. If you live to be a man, you will find the.
use of this. Impatient people can never do much
good in the world. But some day you will be able to
say to yourself, “Oh, how glad I am that Mr. Barry
kept me closely to work! It taught me not only