king in the establishment,
and you keep people out of their beds looking after you at hours when
you ought to be asleep. I hope to have different reports next half.

"RUSSELL, I am glad to see you the leader of the school. I was pleased
with your conduct to the Jew boys, whom I still intend to place in the
school. I am sorry you have done next to nothing in the way of helping
the education of those under you. However, as you have given me a large
promise of reform for next half, I shall say no more.

"GLADSTONE, you deserve the highest praise for your proficiency in
arithmetic, and for your gentlemanly conduct. Some of your companions
hint that you talk rather too much. I do not impute this to you, but you
will consider for yourself whether the allegation is justified. The way
you have got through all duties is admirable.

"CARDWELL, I shall give you a well-deserved navigation prize, so you
need not be quite so solemn.

"STAFFORD, the painful exposure I was compelled to make of your conduct
would have prevented my referring to it again, but that I understand you
and some of your friends have been swaggering, and declaring that you
had escaped unpunished. Beware, Sir, that I never again hear your voice
in the school, in which I only permit you to remain because I believe
that you were made the tool of bigger and worse boys.

"FITZROY, I am sorry to see that you are not looking well. Take care of
yourself in the country, and be assured, my boy, that I shall not forget
the spirited way in which you protected those poor women from their
husbands' brutality, or the very proper chastisement you gave to the
insolent cabman.

"LUCAS, you are a foolish lad. Instead of enjoying the rational and
manly liberty of your companions, you cripple your mind with silly
stories and legends, and do not take your meals regularly. I hear, too,
that you are very ignorant of the history of Rome, which you appear to
have learned at second-hand from some monkish book in dog-Latin. You are
no credit to your class, Sir, and I believe I have told you before that
you are Lucas, _a non lucendo_.

"BROTHERTON, I applaud you for trying to get the school to bed by
midnight, but you want perseverance, and let yourself be put down by any
one who opposes you. If you are right and know it, never give way. Be
firm, or you will not carry your objects--you cannot bolt a door with a
boiled carrot, as you, as a vegetarian, ought to know.

"PALMERSTON, yo