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THE TRIBULATIONS OF ZACK.
A week elapsed before Mrs.Blyth's wavering health permitted her husband to open the sittings of his evening drawing-academy in the invalid room.
During every day of that week, the chances of taming down Zack into a reformed character grew steadily more and more hopeless.

The lad's home-position, at this period, claims a moment's serious attention.
Zack's resistance to his father's infatuated severity was now shortly to end in results of the last importance to himself, to his family, and to his friends.
A specimen has already been presented of Mr.Thorpe's method of religiously educating his son, at six years old, by making him attend a church service of two hours in length; as, also, of the manner in which he sought to drill the child into premature discipline by dint of Sabbath restrictions and Select Bible Texts.

When that child grew to a boy, and when the boy developed to a young man, Mr.Thorpe's educational system still resolutely persisted in being what it had always been from the first.

His idea of Religion defined it to be a system of prohibitions; and, by a natural consequence, his idea of Education defined _that_ to be a system of prohibitions also.
His method of bringing up his son once settled, no earthly consideration could move him from it an inch, one way or the other.