I should now have offered to this second boy a motive.

Would it be the same with the other ?" "No, sir." "What was the other ?" "Love of money." "What is this ?" The boys hesitate.
"It might be called," continues the teacher, "friendship.

It is the motive of a vast number of the actions which are performed in this world.
"Do you think of any other common motive of action besides love of money and friendship ?" "Love of honor," says one; "fear," says another.
"Yes," continues the teacher, "both these are common motives.

I might, to exhibit them, call two more boys, one after the other, and say to the one, 'I will thank you to go and copy this piece of poetry as well as you can.

I want to send it to the school committee as a specimen of improvement made in this school.' "To the other I might say, 'You have been a careless boy to-day; you have not got your lessons well.