Mrs.E----, by the advice of another lady, Mrs.K---- (mother of six), then had recourse to the following interesting experiment.

Instead of punishing her children physically when they misbehaved, she now in their presence wounded herself by striking her left hand severely with a ruler held in the right.

Soon their better natures were touched, and the four implored her to desist, promising with tears never to offend again.

From that hour Mrs.
E---- had little trouble with her boys.
It was recorded in the blue and white book how Miss Ailie gave this plan a fair trial, but her boys must have been darker characters than Mrs.
E----'s, for it merely set them to watching each other, so that they might cry out, "Pandy yourself quick, Miss Ailie; Gavin Dishart's drawing the devil on his slate." Nevertheless, when Miss Ailie announced a return to more conventional methods, Francie was put up (with threats) to say that he suffered agonies of remorse every time she pandied herself for him, but the thing had been organized in a hurry and Francie was insufficiently primed, and on cross-examination he let out that he thought remorse was a swelling of the hands.
Miss Ailie was very humble-minded, and her entries under THE TEACHER TAUGHT were all admonitions for herself.

Thus she chided herself for cowardice because "Delicate private reasons have made me avoid all mention of India in the geography classes.