ould
find that should be new and strange to him. He had not gone far before
he saw a large building with an inscription saying that it was the
Provincial Deformatory for Boys. Underneath the larger inscription there
was a smaller one--one of those corrupt versions of my father's sayings,
which, on dipping into the Sayings of the Sunchild, he had found to be so
vexatiously common. The inscription ran:-

"When the righteous man turneth away from the righteousness that he
hath committed, and doeth that which is a little naughty and wrong, he
will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost
in righteousness." Sunchild Sayings, chap. xxii. v. 15.

The case of the little girl that he had watched earlier in the day had
filled him with a great desire to see the working of one of these curious
institutions; he therefore resolved to call on the headmaster (whose name
he found to be Turvey), and enquire about terms, alleging that he had a
boy whose incorrigible rectitude was giving him much anxiety. The
information he had gained in the forenoon would be enough to save him
from appearing to know nothing of the system. On having rung the bell,
he announced himself to the servant as a Mr. Senoj, and asked if he could
see the Principal.

Almost immediately he was ushered into the presence of a beaming, dapper-
looking, little old gentleman, quick of speech and movement, in spite of
some little portliness.

"Ts, ts, ts," he said, when my father had enquired about terms and asked
whether he might see the system at work. "How unfortunate that you
should have called on a Saturday afternoon. We always have a
half-holiday. But stay--yes--that will do very nicely; I will send for
them into school as a means of stimulating their refractory system."

He called his servant and told him to ring the boys into school. Then,
turning to my father he said, "Stand here, sir, by the window; you will
see them all come trooping in. H'm, h'm, I am sorry to see them still
come back as soon as they hear the bell. I suppose I shall ding some
recalcitrancy into them some day, but it is uphill work. Do you see the
head-boy--the third of those that are coming up the path? I shall have
to get rid of him. Do you see him? he is going back to whip up the
laggers--and now he has boxed a boy's ears: that boy is one of the most
hopeful under my care. I feel sure he has been using improper language,
and my head-boy