The inscription ran:-
"When the righteous man turneth away from the righteousness that he
hath committed, and doeth that which is a little naughty and wrong, he
will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost
in righteousness." Sunchild Sayings, chap. xxii. v. 15.
The case of the little girl that he had watched earlier in the day had
filled him with a great desire to see the working of one of these curious
institutions; he therefore resolved to call on the headmaster (whose name
he found to be Turvey), and enquire about terms, alleging that he had a
boy whose incorrigible rectitude was giving him much anxiety. The
information he had gained in the forenoon would be enough to save him
from appearing to know nothing of the system. On having rung the bell,
he announced himself to the servant as a Mr. Senoj, and asked if he could
see the Principal.
Almost immediately he was ushered into the presence of a beaming, dapper-
looking, little old gentleman, quick of speech and movement, in spite of
some little portliness.
"Ts, ts, ts," he said, when my father had enquired about terms and asked
whether he might see the system at work. "How unfortunate that you
should have called on a Saturday afternoon. We always have a
half-holiday. But stay--yes--that will do very nicely; I will send for
them into school as a means of stimulating their refractory system.
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