I need not have troubled myself so much." He knew the usual routine at the opening of a school term.

The names of the children were to be taken, they were to be divided into classes, and lessons were to be assigned.

Feeling more confidence in himself, James went about this work in business fashion, and when recess came, the comments made by the pupils in the playground were generally favorable.
"He's going to make a good teacher," said one of the girls, "as good as any we've had, and he's so young too." "He goes to work as if he knew how," said another.

"I didn't think Jimmy Garfield had so much in him." "Oh, he's smart!" said another.

"Just think of brother Ben trying to keep school, and he's just as old as James." Meanwhile Tom Bassett and Bill Stackpole had a private conference together.
"What do you think of Jim's speech, Bill ?" asked Tom.
"Oh, it sounded well enough, but I'll bet he was trembling in his boots all the while he was talkin'." "Maybe so, but he seemed cool enough." "Oh, that was all put on.