ted amiably. "Anything rather than sit still!"
is the mental attitude of a child under six!

"I told you just how dirty they'd be," murmured the Corporal. "I know
'em; but I never expected to get this good chance to scrub any of 'em."

"It's only the first day;--wait till _next_ Monday," I urged.

"I shan't be here to see it _next_ Monday morning," my young friend
replied. "We can't bury Uncle _every_ week!" (This with a sigh of
profound regret!)

Many days were spent in learning the unpronounceable names of my flock
and in keeping them from murdering one another until Froebel's justly
celebrated "law of love" could be made a working proposition. It was
some time before the babies could go down stairs in a line without
precipitating one another head foremost by furtive kicks and punches. I
placed an especially dependable boy at the head and tail of the line but
accidentally overheard the tail boy tell the head that he'd lay him out
flat if he got into the yard first, a threat that embarrassed a free and
expeditious exit:--and all their relations to one another seemed at
this time to be arranged on a broad basis of belligerence. But better
days were coming, were indeed near at hand, and the children themselves
brought them; they only needed to be shown how, but you may well guess
that in the early days of what was afterwards to be known as "The
Kindergarten Movement on the Pacific Coast," when the Girl and her
Kingdom first came into active communication with each other, the
question of discipline loomed rather large! Putting aside altogether the
question of the efficiency, or the propriety, of corporal punishment in
the public schools, it seems pretty clear that babies of four or five
years should be spanked by their parents if by anyone; and that a
teacher who cannot induce good behavior in children of that age, without
spanking, has mistaken her vocation. However, it is against their
principles for kindergartner's to spank, slap, flog, shake or otherwise
wrestle with their youthful charges, no matter how much they seem to
need these instantaneous and sometimes very effectual methods of
dissuasion at the moment.

There are undoubtedly times when the old Adam (I don't know why it
shouldn't be the Old Eve!) rises in one's still unregenerate heart, and
one longs to take the "low road" in discipline; but the "high road"
commonly leads one to the desired point without great delay and there is
genuine satisfaction in fi