If there had been any one like you at the head of the school in my time, it would have kept me out of no end of scrapes.

How does Tom get on?
he is not likely to fall into this set, I trust." "I am not sure," said Norman; "he does pretty well on the whole.

Some of them began by bullying him, and that made him cling to Cheviot and Ernescliffe, and the better party; but lately I have thought Anderson, junior, rather making up to him, and I don't know whether they don't think that tempting him over to them would be the surest way of vexing me.

I have an eye over him, and I hope he may get settled into the steadier sort before next half." After a silence, Norman said, "Papa, there is a thing I can't settle in my own mind.

Suppose there had been wrong things done when older boys, and excellent ones too, were at the head of the school, yet they never interfered, do you think I ought to let it go on ?" "Certainly not, or why is power given to you ?" "So I thought," said Norman; "I can't see it otherwise.