o nothing.

Hugh was the hero of the school, or rather the leading villain. In
about two minutes he called out, "Please, sir, Josh Blake is
a-shoving me with his elbow."

"Hugh Boyle, come this way." He came.

"Now, Hugh, I told you that there must be no speaking or reading
aloud. Of course you forgot what I said; you should have put up your
hand."

In the course of the day Hugh received two slaps, then three, then
four. He began to fear the strap as well as to feel it. That was
the beginning of wisdom.

Nancy Toomey was naughty, and was sent into a corner. She was sulky
and rebellious when told to return to her seat. She said, in the
hearing of Tommy Traddles, "The master is a carroty-headed crawler."

It is as well to remark that Philip's hair was red; a man with red
hair is apt to be of a hasty temper, and, as a matter of fact, I had
seen Philip's fist fly out very rapidly on several occasions before
he began to practise the twelve virtues.

Tommy put up his hand, and, at a nod, went up to the master.

"Well, Tommy, what is the matter?"

"Please, sir, Nancy Toomey has been calling you a carroty-headed crawler."

Tommy's eyebrows were raised, his eyes and mouth wide open. Philip
looked over his head at Nancy, whose face was on fire. He slowly
repeated:

"Nancy Toomey has been calling me a carroty-headed crawler, has she?"

"Yes, sir. That's what she called you. I heard her."

"Well, Tommy, go to your seat like a good boy. Nancy won't call
names any more."

In a little more than a week perfect discipline and good order
prevailed in the school.

A BUSH HERMIT.

It is not good for man to be alone, but Philip became a hermit. Half
a mile from the school and the main road there was an empty slab hut
roofed with shingles. It was on the top of a long sloping hill,
which afforded a beautiful view over the lake and the distant hills.
Half an acre of garden ground was fenced in with the hut, and it was
part of the farm of a man from Hampshire, England, who lived with his
wife near the main road. A man from Hampshire is an Englishman, and
should speak English; but, when Philip tried to make a bargain about
the hut, he could not understand the Hampshire language, and the
farmer's wife had to interpret. And that farmer lived to the age of
eighty years, and never learned to speak English. He was not a fool
by any means; knew all about farming; worked twelve or fourteen hours
a day all the y