WAS ONCE YOUNG.
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II is an excellent thing for all who are
engaged in giving instruction to young
people frequently to call to mind what
theyowe themselves when young. This
practice is one of the most likely to impart
patience and forbearance, and to correct
unreasonable expectations. AT one period
Of my life, when instructng two or three
young people to write, found them, as ]
thought, unusually stupid. ! happened
about this time, in looking over the con-
tents Of an old chest, to lay my hand on an
old copybook, written by me when was a
boy. The thick up-strokes, the crooked
down-strokes, the awkward jointings OF
the letters, and the blots in the book, made
me completely ashamed of myself, and !
could, at the moment, have hurried the
book into the. fire. The worse, however,
| thought of myself, the better thought
Of my backward scholars; was cured of
my unreasonable expectations, and became
in future doubly patient and forbearing. In
teaching youth, remember that you once
were, young, and in reproving their youth
fnlI errors endeavor to call to mind your
own.


sissI tell you what" said neighbor to a
sign painter, who had an apprentice rather
awkward in business, if you do not look
a little sharper after that apprentice-lad OF
yours, you will never make any thing Of
him. He has no more notion of painting
than an old horse Look at that lion that
he has just finished; why it is more like
dog than lion. He ought to be ashamed
of himself; and if | were you, ! should
very soon tell him So" "And SO would"
replied the sign painter, /" only that have
a lion. hanging up against the wall of the
workshop of my own doing when ! was
lad, and to tell you the truth, bad as his
lion is, it is great deal better than mine;
so ] must bear with him, and hope for the
best ,n'-- Gazette Of Education.