The deficient are as guilty in their eyes as the idle, and Paaker could put forward small claims to their indulgence.

I encourage freedom and merriment," he continued turning to the priests from Cheraw, "among our disciples, for in fettering the fresh enjoyment of youth we lame our best assistant.

The excrescences on the natural growth of boys cannot be more surely or painlessly extirpated than in their wild games.

The school-boy is the school-boy's best tutor." "But Paaker," said the priest Meriapu, "was not improved by the provocations of his companions.

Constant contests with them increased that roughness which now makes him the terror of his subordinates and alienates all affection." "He is the most unhappy of all the many youths, who were intrusted to my care," said Ameni, "and I believe I know why,--he never had a childlike disposition, even when in years he was still a child, and the Gods had denied him the heavenly gift of good humor.