He walked round it with his face wreathed in smiles.
"Like as not that floor is hard," he remarked.

"It has just come into my mind.

I'm afraid you're not wholly comfortable.

Rise quietly, brush one another, and take your seats.

It grieves me to think how hard that floor must be." There were at that time about sixty-five pupils in our district, ranging in size and age from little four-year-olds, just learning the alphabet, to young men and women twenty years of age.