It's just as easy to get your lessons with your eyes as with your lips, and for the sake of my feelings I hope you will try to do so.
"Speaking of lessons," he went on, "I don't believe in giving long ones.
I always liked short, easy lessons myself, and I suppose you do." In point of fact he gave the longest, hardest lessons of any teacher we ever had! We had to put in three or four hours of hard study every evening in order to keep up; and if we failed-- By this time some of the larger boys--Newman Darnley, Ben Murch, Absum Glinds and Melzar Tibbetts--were smiling broadly and winking at one another.

The new master, they thought, was "dead easy." Later in the morning, when the bell rang for the boys to come in from their recess, Newman and many of the others pushed in at the doorway, pell-mell, as usual.

Before they were fairly inside the room the new master, calm and smiling, stood before them.

One of his long arms shot out; he collared Newman and, with a trip of the foot, flung him on the floor.

Ben Murch, coming next, landed on top of Newman.