On the other hand, how miserable must any boy feel, if he has any nobleness of mind whatever, to go away from school to-day thinking that he has not been honest; that he has been trying to conceal his faults, and thus to obtain a credit which he did not justly deserve.

Always be honest, let the consequence be what it may." The reader will understand that the object of such measures is simply _to secure as large a majority as possible_ to make _voluntary_ efforts to observe the rule.

I do not expect that by such measures _universal_ obedience can be exacted.

The teacher must follow up the plan after a few days by other measures for those pupils who will not yield to such inducements as these.

Upon this subject, however, I shall speak more particularly at a future time.
In my own school it required two or three weeks to exclude whispering and communication by signs.