LEDGE HILL SCHOOL Ever since he began to study at Geauga Seminary James had looked forward to earning a little money by keeping school himself; not an advanced school, of course, but an ordinary school, such as was kept in the country districts in the winter.

He felt no hesitation as to his competence.

The qualifications required by the school committees were by no means large, and so far there was no difficulty.
There was one obstacle, however: James was still a boy himself--a large boy, to be sure, but he had a youthful face, and the chances were that he would have a number of pupils older than himself.

Could he keep order?
Would the rough country boys submit to the authority of one like themselves, whatever might be his reputation as a scholar?
This was a point to consider anxiously.

However, James had pluck, and he was ready to try the experiment.
He would have been glad to secure a school so far away that he could go there as a stranger, and be received as a young man.