We knew a master whose delight,
apparently, was pounding and beating _little_ boys,--he did not touch
the large ones. And yet he was generally considered a first-rate
teacher. Parents upheld him in anything he chose to do with the boys,
and if they complained at home, they were told that it must have been
their fault to be punished at all. This man every morning took the
Bible in one hand and his rattan in the other and walked backward and
forward on the floor in front of the desks while the boys read aloud,
each boy reading two or three verses; and woe be to any boy who made a
mistake, such as mispronouncing a word! Although he might never have
been instructed as to its pronunciation, he was at once pounded on the
head or rapped over the knuckles. Of course he never forgot that
particular word. And this teacher was called only "strict"! If ever a
man deserved the pillory, it was that teacher.
Possibly some of our readers may think that there is another side to
this story; for the benefit of such we give some lines from the "Salem
Gazette," Feb.
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