[The Teacher by Jacob Abbott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Teacher CHAPTER IV 65/95
'_Hoist away_!' said the captain.
The sailors hoisted, and the front part of the little boat began to rise, the stern plowing and foaming through the water, and the man still in it, with his trunk under his arm.
They 'hoisted away' until I began to think that the poor man would actually tumble out behind.
He clung to the seat, and looked as though he was saying to himself, 'I will take care how I am tardy the next time.' However, after a while, they hoisted up the stern of the boat, and he got safely on board. "_Moral_--Though coming to school a few minutes earlier or later may not in itself be a matter of much consequence, yet the habit of being five minutes too late, if once formed, will, in actual life, be a source of great inconvenience, and sometimes of lasting injury." NEW SCHOLARS. There is at ------ a young ladies' school, taught by Mr .-- ----. * * * * * "But, with all these excellences, there is one fault, which I considered a great one, and which does not comport with the general character of the school for kindness and good feeling.
It is the little effort made by the scholars to become acquainted with the new ones who enter. Whoever goes there must push herself forward, or she will never feel at home.
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