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My task of instruction and surveillance, instead of becoot better accustomed to each other, becaoverness, I soon found, was a mere mockery as applied to me: my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt The habitual fear of their father's peevish temper, and the dread of the punishenerally within bounds in his iirls, too, had soht occasionally be bribed to do as she bid him by the hope of reward; but I had no rewards to offer; and as for punishiven to understand, the parents reserved that privilege to themselves; and yet they expected uided by the fear of anger and the desire of approbation; but neither the one nor the other had any effect upon these

Master To to be ruled, must needs set up as a ruler, and manifested a deteroverness in order, by violentboy of his years, this occasioned no trifling inconvenience A few sound boxes on the ear, on such occasions, h: but as, in that case, he ht make up some story to his mother which she would be sure to believe, as she had such unshaken faith in his veracity--though I had already discovered it to be by nohim, even in self-defence; and, in his most violent moods, my only resource was to throw him on his back and hold his hands and feet till the frenzy was so what he ought not, was added that of forcing hiht Often he would positively refuse to learn, or to repeat his lessons, or even to look at his book Here, again, a good birch rod ht have been serviceable; but, as my poere so limited, I must make the best use of what I had

As there were no settled hours for study and play, I resolved to give my pupils a certain task, which, with moderate attention, they could perform in a short time; and till this was done, however weary I was, or however perverse theyshort of parental interference should induce me to suffer them to leave the schoolrooainst the door to keep them in Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost I determined always strictly to fulfil the threats and promises I made; and, to that end, Ithat I could not perform Then, I would carefully refrain froence of my own ill-temper: when they behaved tolerably, I would be as kind and obliging as it was in my power to be, in order to ood and bad conduct; I would reason with them, too, in the simplest and ratify their wishes, after a glaring fault, it should be er: their little hymns and prayers I would ; when they said their prayers at night and asked pardon for their offences, I would remind them of the sins of the past day, sole a spirit of opposition; penitential hyhty, cheerful ones by the coood; and every kind of instruction I would convey to the discourse--apparently with no other object than their present amusement in view