192 | SCHOOL-CHAT IN PLAY-HOURS.

what was set down in the books, but it taught me to
keep long at the same thing without getting tired ; to
repeat the same task a hundred times, if needful ; to
sum up the same figures, and keep my thoughts in the
same channel. It taught me patience.’ Come, now,
and I will give you a lesson in drawing.” 4
Charles, “Thank you, sir; I will try to be patient.”
~The conversation reported above is a very humble
specimen of what is daily occurring between every
faithful teacher and his pupils. ‘There are, indeed,
instructors who feel the toil of teaching to be such a
burden, that in hours of release they try to forget
there is such a thing as a school. Not so the zealous
and successful educator, Every moment he is the
teacher. It is his honour and his delight. He loves
to feel the pliable mass under his beneficent touch all
the day long; and it is not wonderful if he dreams of
it by night. In addition to this specimen of dialogue
with one of the youngest, the following may serve as
an example of talk out of school with one of the oldest
scholars. | oe
The scene is laid in Heron’s Bay, and the persons
are Carl Adler, Gregory Beale, and two fishermen who
manage the boat. The time is Saturday evening, and
the waters are reddened with the blush of the western
skies, The parties are wearied with pulling the oar
all the afternoon, and have turned the head of their —
boat towards the point where the graceful spire of