"That, I believe, is a common human failing.

But Master McLean ought to know.

Forty years of youth, year after year have passed through his hands.

What say you, Alexander ?" "Youth is youth," replied the schoolmaster, weighing his sentences, "and by those words I mean exactly what I say.

I think it changes but little through all the ages, and it is probably the same to-day that it was in old Babylon.