CHAPTER XL.
SELLING OUT.
The flight of the Hawk did not long dampen the ardor of those who were looking for signs in the heaven above and the earth beneath.

I have known a school-master to stand, switch in hand, and give a stubborn boy a definite number of minutes to yield.

The boy who would not have submitted on account of any amount of punishment, was subdued by the awful waiting.

We have all read the old school-book story of the prison-warden who brought a mob of criminals to subjection by the same process.

Millerism produced some such effect as this.