"No, sir."

"So I thought. You'd better take out a patent for it. The next boy
may go to the board."

I have given a specimen of Mr. Burbank's method of conducting the
school, but do not propose to enter into further details at present.
It will doubtless recall to some of my readers experiences of their
own, as the school I am describing is very similar to hundreds of
country schools now in existence, and Mr. Burbank is the representative
of a large class.





CHAPTER V

THE PRIZE WINNER




"Are you going to the examination to-day, mother?" asked Harry, at
breakfast.

"I should like to go," said Mrs. Walton, "but I don't see how I
can. To-day's my bakin' day, and somehow my work has got behindhand
during the week."