Unless the body works the brain will suffer, and a happy and contented boy will learn as easily again as a discontented, and miserable one.

I will give you the box after tea, so that you can all examine them together.

The second and third classes will now stay in; the fourth class can go out in the playground with the first.

I shall have time to examine them while the others are doing their work tomorrow." There was a suppressed cheer among the boys and Ripon, as the senior, said: "I am sure, sir, we are all very much obliged to you for your kindness, and we will do our best to deserve it." There was a chorus of assent, and then the elder and younger boys went out into the playground while the work of examination of the second and third classes began.
On the following day lessons began in earnest, and the boys found their first impressions of the new master more than justified.

A new era had commenced.