rs.
I do not know the authors of the others. I do not offer them as
remarkable compositions: every teacher will see that they are not so.
The design of inserting them is merely to show that the ordinary
literary ability to be found in every school, may be turned to useful
account, by simply opening a channel for it, and to furnish such
teachers as may be inclined to try the experiment, the means of making
the plan clearly understood by their pupils.

MARKS OF A BAD SCHOLAR.

"At the time when she should be ready to take her seat at school,
she commences preparation for leaving home. To the extreme
annoyance of those about her, all is now hurry and bustle and ill
humor. Thorough search is to be made for every book or paper, for
which she has occasion; some are found in one place, some in
another, and others are forgotten altogether. Being finally
equipped, she casts her eye at the clock, hopes to be in tolerable
good season, (notwithstanding that the hour for opening the school
has already arrived,) and sets out, in the most violent hurry.

After so much haste, she is unfitted for attending properly to the
duties of the school, until a considerable time after her arrival.
If present at the devotional exercises, she finds it difficult to
command her attention, even when desirous of so doing, and her
deportment at this hour, is accordingly marked with an unbecoming
listlessness and abstraction.

When called to recitations, she recollects that some task was
assigned, which till that moment, she had forgotten; of others she
had mistaken the extent, most commonly thinking them to be shorter
than her companions suppose. In her answers to questions with which
she should be familiar, she always manifests more or less of
hesitation, and what she ventures to express, is very commonly in
the form of a question. In these, as in all exercises, there is an
inattention to general instructions. Unless what is said be
addressed particularly to herself, her eyes are directed towards
another part of the room; it may be her thoughts are employed about
something not at all connected with the school. If reproved by her
teacher, for negligence in any respects, she is generally provided
with an abundance of excuses, and however mild the reproof, she
receives it as a piece of extreme severity