of the little boat began to rise, the stern still
ploughing and foaming through the water, and the man still in it,
with his trunk under his arm. They "hoisted away," until I began to
think that the poor man would actually tumble out behind. He clung
to the seat, and looked as though he was saying to himself, "I will
take care how I am tardy the next time." However, after awhile,
they hoisted up the stern of the boat, and he got safely on board.

_Moral._ Though coming to school a few minutes earlier or later,
may not in itself be a matter of much consequence, yet the habit of
being five minutes too late, if once formed, will, in actual life,
be a source of great inconvenience, and sometimes of lasting
injury."

NEW SCHOLARS.

"There is, at----, a young ladies' school, taught by Mr.----.

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But with all these excellences, there is one fault, which I
considered a great one, and which does not comport with the general
character of the school for kindness and good feeling. It is the
little effort made by the scholars to become acquainted with the
new ones who enter. Whoever goes there, must push herself forward,
or she will never feel at home. The young ladies seem to forget,
that the new comer must feel rather unpleasantly, in the midst of a
hundred persons, to whom she is wholly a stranger, and with no one
to speak to. Two or three will stand together, and instead of
deciding upon some plan, by which the individual may be made to
feel at ease, something like the following conversation takes
place.

_Miss X._ How do you like the looks of Miss A., who entered school
to-day?

_Miss Y._ I don't think she is very pretty, but she looks as if she
might be a good scholar.

_Miss X._ She does not strike me very pleasantly; did you ever see
such a face? And her complexion is so dark, I should think she had
always lived in the open air; and what a queer voice she has!

_Miss Y._ I wonder if she has a taste for Arithmetic?

_Miss X._ She does not look as if she had much taste for any thing;
see, how strangely she fixes her hair.

_Miss S._ Whether she has much taste or not, some one of us ought
to go and get acquainted with her. See how unpleasantly she feels.

_Miss X._ I don