A  boy  defined  conscience  as  'a.  thing  a  gentleman
hasn't  got,  who,  when  a  boy  finds  his  purse  and
gives  it  back  to  him,  doesn't  give  the  boy  sixpence.'

Another  boy  was  asked,  after  a  Sunday  evening
lecture  on  'Thankfulness,'  what  pleasure  he  enjoyed
most  in  the  course  of  a  year.  He  replied  candidly,
'  Cock-fightin',  ma'am ;  there 's  a  pit  up  by  the
"  Black  Boy  "  as  is  worth  anythink  in  Brissel.'

There  is  something  a  little  pathetic  in  the  attempt
to  civilize  the  rough  street-boy  by  means  of  the
refining  influence  of  ferns  and  fossils,  and  it  is
difficult  to  help  feeling  that  Miss  Carpenter  rather
over-estimated  the  value  of  elementary  education.
'The  poor  are  not  to  be  fed  upon  facts.  Even
Shakespeare  and  the  Pyramids  are  not  sufficient ;
nor  is  there  much  use  in  giving  them  the  results  of
culture,  unless  we  also  give  them  those  conditions
-under  which  culture  can  be  realized.  In  these
cold,  crowded  cities  of  the  North,  the  proper  basis
for  morals,  using  the  word  in  its  wide  Hellenic,
signification,  is  to  be  found  in  architecture,  not  in
books.
