instances of this are afforded. When children come to the house they do not care for sweets, but if you will give them a little salt in the palm of their hand they thoroughly enjoy eating it. Yet never will you see one of a group eat all his salt. He invariably passes it round, for all his companions to have a taste with him. On one occasion a child who had received a slate pencil in response to his request, made the remark, ‘Oh! I did not think you would give me a whole one; but, now you have, I can break it up into five pieces and give each of my little friends here a piece,’ which he immediately did.
The next illustrations will show what a variety of scholars we have to deal with. The boys at the back, though tall, are not so old as might be imagined. In tropical countries everything grows quickly, and boys of seventeen are practically men. Many of these older ones have been coming
