There is nothing so pleasant as regularity, and nobody likes regularity more than boys do.

To show this, I should like to have you now form a line as exact as you can." After some unnecessary shoving and pushing, increased by the disorderly conduct of a few bad boys, a line is formed.

Most of the class are pleased with the experiment, and the teacher takes no notice of the few exceptions.

The time to attend to _them_ will come by-and-by.
"Hands down." The boys obey.
"Shoulders back." "There; there is a very perfect line." "Do you stand easily in that position ?" "Yes, sir." "I believe your position is the military one now, pretty nearly; and military men study the postures of the human body for the sake of finding the one most easy; for they wish to preserve as much as possible of the soldiers' strength for the time of battle.

I should like to try the experiment of your standing thus at the next lesson.