He accordingly states to them, just before the writing exercise of the day on which he proposes the experiment, as follows: "I have thought that time will be saved if you will help me distribute the books, and I will accordingly appoint four distributors, one for each division of the seats, who may come to me and receive the books, and distribute them each to his own division.

Are you willing to adopt this plan ?" The boys answer "Yes, sir," and the teacher then looks carefully around the room, and selects four pleasant and popular boys--boys who he knows would gladly assist him, and who would, at the same time, be agreeable to their school-mates.

This latter point is necessary in order to secure the popularity and success of the plan.
Unless the boys are very different from any I have ever met with, they will be pleased with the duty thus assigned them.

They will learn system and regularity by being taught to perform this simple duty in a proper manner.

After a week, the teacher may consider their term of service as having expired, and thanking them in public for the assistance they have rendered him, he may ask the scholars if they are willing to continue the plan, and if the vote is in favor of it, as it unquestionably would be, each boy probably hoping that he should be appointed to the office, the teacher may nominate four others, including, perhaps, upon the list, some boy popular among his companions, but whom he has suspected to be not very friendly to himself or the school.