I do not know the authors of the others.

I do not offer them as remarkable compositions: every teacher will see that they are not so.
The design of inserting them is merely to show that the ordinary literary ability to be found in every school may be turned to useful account by simply opening a channel for it, and to furnish such teachers as may be inclined to try the experiment the means of making the plan clearly understood by their pupils.
MARKS OF A BAD SCHOLAR.
"At the time when she should be ready to take her seat at school, she commences preparation for leaving home.

To the extreme annoyance of those about her, all is now hurry, and bustle, and ill-humor.

Thorough search is to be made for every book or paper for which she has occasion; some are found in one place, some in another, and others are forgotten altogether.

Being finally equipped, she casts her eye at the clock, hopes to be in tolerable good season (notwithstanding that the hour for opening the school has already arrived), and sets out in the most violent hurry.
"After so much haste, she is unfitted for attending properly to the duties of the school until a considerable time after her arrival.