He is in no haste to commence his operations.
He looks for the faults; watches, without seeming to watch, the movements which he is attempting to control.

He studies the materials with which he is to work, and lets their true character develop itself.
He tries to find something to approve in the exercise as it proceeds, and endeavors to interest the class by narrating some fact connected with the reading, or making some explanation which interests the boys.
At the end of the exercise he addresses them, perhaps, as follows: "I have observed, boys, in some military companies, that the officers are very strict, requiring implicit and precise obedience.

The men are required to form a precise line." (Here there is a sort of involuntary movement all along the line, by which it is very sensibly straightened.) "They make all the men stand erect" (at this word heads go up, and straggling feet draw in all along the class), "in the true military posture.

They allow nothing to be done in the ranks but to attend to the exercise" (John hastily crowds his apple into his pocket), "and thus they regulate every thing in exact and steady discipline, so that all things go on in a most systematic and scientific manner.

This discipline is so admirable in some countries, especially in Europe, where much greater attention is paid to military tactics than in our country, that I have heard it said by travelers that some of the soldiers who mount guard at public places look as much like statues as they do like living men.
"Other commanders act differently.