e made them swimming-masters. They benefited by having to give
instruction to others, and by learning to keep their tempers. Nothing,
perhaps, tries the temper so much as having to teach dull or inattentive
boys. Blackall had been made one of the swimming-masters, but at the
commencement of the bathing season the Doctor called him up, and without
a word of explanation told him that he thought fit to dismiss him from
the post. He lost, in consequence, several privileges attached to the
office. To a person of Blackall's character, the mode of his dismissal
was a considerable punishment. It showed him that the Doctor was aware
of some of his misconduct, but of how much he was still left in
ignorance, and he had to live on in fear that some more severe
punishment was still in store for him. I am glad to say that there were
very few other fellows at all like Blackall in the school. There were,
of course, some few bullies and blackguards, or who would speedily have
become so if left to their own devices, and there were cowards, and boys
who carelessly told an untruth, or were addicted to the too common vice
of prevarication. There were also vicious boys, or who would have been
vicious had they not been watched and restrained. These were exceptions
to the general rule. The Doctor's system, embracing the law of
kindness, answered well, and brought forth good fruits.

"Come along, Ellis," said Ernest, one Saturday afternoon, when he found
his friend busily working away at the model of a vessel he was cutting
out of a piece of American pine; "there's Sergeant Dibble in the
playground; I'll take you up to him, and tell him that he must turn you
into a soldier before the holidays. He'll do it if you obey his
directions." Sergeant Dibble was found in the middle of the playground,
surrounded by a number of boys, who were listening eagerly to one of his
stories with which he was amusing them till the hour to commence had
arrived.

"The reason why we conquered was this, young gentlemen," he was saying.
"Every man, from the highest to the lowest, knew his duty and did it.
If they didn't know it and didn't do it, Lord Wellington sent them about
their business, no matter who they were. Remember that when you grow
up. Your duty, I take it, is to do your best in whatever station you
may be placed; what you are certain will produce the best results and
forward the objects in which you are engaged. It is not enough to say,
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