een by the
Committee.

This Committee were entrusted with plenary powers, and there was no
appeal from their decision. In case they exercised their authority in an
improper way, or failed on any account to give satisfaction, they were
liable to impeachment, but while they continued in office, they were to
be strictly obeyed.

This plan went on successfully for three months, and with very little
diminution of interest. The whole school went regularly through the
lessons in coarse hand, and afterwards through a similar series in fine
hand, and improvement in this branch was thought to be greater than at
any former period in the same length of time.

The same principle of arranging the several steps of an art or a study
into a series of lessons, and requiring the pupil to pass regularly from
one to the other, might easily be applied to other studies, and would
afford a pleasant variety.

12. THE CORRESPONDENCE. A master of a district school was walking
through the room, with a large rule in his hands, and as he came up
behind two small boys, he observed that they were playing with some
papers. He struck them once or twice, though not very severely on the
head, with the rule which he had in his hand. Tears started from the
eyes of one. They were called forth by a mingled feeling of grief,
mortification, and pain. The other who was of "sterner stuff," looked
steadily into the master's face, and when his back was turned, shook his
fist at him and laughed in defiance.

Another teacher seeing a similar case, did nothing. The boys when they
saw him; hastily gathered up their playthings and put them away. An hour
or two after, a little boy who sat near the master, brought them a note
addressed to them both. They opened it and read as follows.

To Edward and John,

I observed, when I passed you to-day, from your concerned looks,
and your hurried manner of putting something into your desk, that
you were doing something that you knew was wrong. When you attempt
to do any thing whatever, which conscience tells you is wrong, you
only make yourself uneasy and anxious while you do it, and then you
are forced to resort to concealment and deception, when you see me
coming. You would be a great deal happier, if you would always be
doing your duty, and then you would never be afraid.

Your affectionate teacher, ---- ----.

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