30 - ROBERT DAWSON.

and Hill hung down their heads when his eye searched
them out.

“Some of the boys have done themselves great
credit,” remarked the are when the class was dis-
missed. ‘They seem to understand what they are
about; it is not parrot-talk.”

He certainly looked very much gratified, and so-did
those of us who had earned the commendation.

“T will not study arithmetic—I declare I will not!”
exclaimed Charley, in a pet, as we went out of school
together. -

“Charley, if you would only do your examples your-
self, you would like it. There is nothing like helping
one’s self, depend -upon it,” said. I, feeling strong,
manly, and self-relying, from the morning’s victory

over myself, How different was our training !

‘Work is sweet, for Gop has blest
Honest work with quiet rest—

. Rest below, and rest above,
In the mansions of His love,
When the work of life is done,
When the battle ’s fought and.won.