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When every eye around me sleeps,
May I not sin without controul?
No, for a constant watch he keeps,

On every thought of every soul."

Solomon tells, that even a child is known by his doing, whether his work be pure and whether it be right. If children in general are known, scholars certainly must be known: Therefore I will endeavour to tell you how the good scholar is known by his doings and actions.

1. A good scholar is known by his love to learning, not to reading only, but to every other branch of education: if you love learning, my dear little friends, you will soon make good scholars; you will soon learn to read, to write and to cypher, to speak French, Latin, Spanish, or any other language may be learnt, if you love it; but if you dread your lessons and books, it will indeed be tiresome work, you will soon grow weary; you will go from one branch of learning to another, will pretend to learn every thing, and after all, know little or none at all about any of them; you will learn but little while you skim the surface, you must apply your mind and take delight in all you undertake to learn, then it will only seem an amusement to you; while to the dunce and the idler, it will be the toil, the hateful labour of his life.

2. A good scholar is known by his love to his teacher; if you love to be taught, you will

also love the person who can teach you, love those who instruct you, as well as the instruction you receive: a great deal depends upon love to your teachers, if you love them, you will esteem them for their work's sake, you will listen to them with pleasure; but if you hate them, all the advice they give will be received with contempt, with dislike, with disgust and prejudice. I love to hear you speak of them with pleasure, and think of them with gratitude; I love to see you shed tears of affection and respect, especially at leaving the school, where you have learnt the best of lessons, where you have received from your teacher, not the distant treatment of scholars, but the treatment of children from a parent: If you have been well instructed in every branch of polite education, and at the same time received the same attention, advice and tender reproof, as from a father or mother, where is the scholar that is not delighted with the sight of his teacher? where is the child that does not love "the guide of his youth?" Yea more, even the very place where he was educated. Love your teacher. Love your school, and love the scholars. The school will not be to you as it is to many, like a place of confinement; you will not be like many, who as they go out of school, shout as if they were glad that they were let at liberty. Many chil dren, in going out of school, remind me more of prisoners or captives, who have gained their

liberty and are restored to their friends, than of children retiring with pleasure from a place of learning.

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3. A good scholar is known by his silence. Nothing can be done when all is noise and confusion. What think you of an hundred scholars, all repeating or reading their lessons aloud. What think you of an hundred scholars all repeating their sums aloud, one enumerating, another adding up, a third subtracting, a fourth multiplying, a fifth dividing, and a sixth in practice; what unintelligible language; and the teacher at the same time straining his lungs, and calling aloud, to silence and order, but all in vain; he is vexed, his mind is harassed and perplexed, one scholar asking him one question, and a second another, a third showing his copy, and a fourth is waiting with his sum; but this is not all, there is, in many schools, a great deal of idle chit-chat, some children seem as if they. had all the important secrets in the word to tell; why sit whispering so much to the next scholar that is near you? why hinder him and yourself too? why are four or five to lay down their books or their pens to listen to your nonsense? be attentive to your tasks, and keep silencewhile in school; speak not at all, unless it be to ask a question for information, either of a scholar who knows better, or of your teacher.

4. A good scholar is known by his diligence. He has no idle moments to spend, but like the. little busy bee, improves each shining hour;

O how many shining hours some children lose. They do not try to improve, they take no pains at all with their copies, but hurry them over, and seem glad when they are done, that they may have time to spend in idleness and talk.

5. A good scholar will endeavour to keep good order, he will not run all over the school, hunting for his books, or trying to get the scho lars to help him to learn his lesson or do his sum; you will always see him in his own place, he will be careful of his books, they will be neatly covered, without scrawls or dog's-ears, without blots or dirt; he will not write his name in twenty places, as some children do, and make their books not fit to be seen; when he is spoken to, he is all attention, he listens to the instructions given, with eager desire, and when they are finished, you may read in his countenance that he is pleased that he knows more than before; he is also a very careful boy, with regard to the school. He is careful not to bring dirt into it, or make any white in school, by tearing paper and throwing it on the floor; he is careful not to read any books in school, but those that he ought to read; he will not waste his time in looking at the pictures, instead of learning his lessons; he is careful to read well, to pronounce his words full, clear and distinct, so that you may easily understand him.

6. A good scholar is known by his punctual attendance at the appointed hour: you will

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know him by his cheerfulness, and thoughtful ness, he hastens to school, with his books under his arm or in his bag; he is fearful of being too late, but is seldom a minute behind the proper time; he is not afraid of summer's heat or winter's cold, a little snow or rain will not keep him at home; he regularly attends at school and is desirous of learning something new and useful every day; if he is absent from school, it must be for something very particular, he is perhaps detained at home by illness.

7. A good scholar is known by his respectful behaviour: no black looks, no contemptuous whispers, no "answering again," when he is spoken to by his teacher; when at any time he is reproved or punished, he is not angry, but sorrowful; this he says, and he feels what he says, is because he knows that it is for his good, that his teacher is wiser and knows better than he does, therefore he endeavours to avoid the fault for which he is reproved, for the time to come; he never leaves the school, without paying those marks of respect which are due from a good scholar to his teacher.

Once more-A good scholar is known by his good example: he is determined that none of the scholars shall be the worse for his example, but if possible, the better: he is resolved that none shall hereafter say, that they should not have been punished, had it not been for him, that he was their leader in robbing orchards, spoiling birds' nests, or playing truant. O my

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