“And I would rather hear,” he used to add, “the ‘well done’ of the ‘Other-Fellow’ than the shouts of praise of the whole world; while I would a thousand times rather that the people should shout and hiss themselves hoarse with rage and envy, than that the ‘Other-Fellow’ should sit inside and say, ’You lie! you lie! you’re a sneak, and you know it!’”

This was what Mr. Bright said to his pupils on a Monday morning, and it made a wonderful impression upon them.  The same thought always will make an impression upon people if only it can be got to them.

After this, he let the “Other-Fellow” manage his school.  You can see how effective it was, my dear, by observing what it did for “Dodd,” as I have just related.  It was even more powerful, if possible, with the other pupils.

I commend this “Other-Fellow” to your notice, ladies and gentlemen, and especially to yours, beloved, who are teachers of young men and women.  You can’t use him to so good an advantage among the younger pupils, but if you can once get him to take control of your larger boys and girls, you have put them into most excellent hands.

For, see; he will ply the lash when it is deserved, and lay on heavily where you would hardly dare to lift a finger.  Does Mary whisper too much?  Quietly ask her to settle the score with the “Other-Fellow.”  Is John doing something that he should not do?  Hand him over to the same authority.  And if you can do this, and can succeed in making this personage the Absolute Monarch of your school, whose assistant you are, then be happy, and teach school just as long as you can afford to.  You are a god-send to any company of young people among whom your lot is cast.

But if you are a stranger to the “Other-Fellow” yourself, don’t try to introduce him to any one else.  It is not well for strangers to attempt familiarities, yet I have known such attempts, even in the school room, and by those high in authority, even among the machines.

But Mr. Bright had succeeded in putting this personage into his school as head master, and he had wrought wonders, even in so hard a case as that of “Dodd” Weaver.  His presence in any school will always work as it did in this case.  It takes a man or a woman of character to use this power, though!

CHAPTER XIV.

I most heartily wish that I could go on with this tale without recording any further lapses on the part of its alleged hero, but I can’t.  The facts in the case will not warrant such a continuation.

Nor do I admit that it was “Dodd’s” Methodist blood that occasioned these fallings from grace.  I have known men, women and boys, and whole herds of other people besides, even those who were firm believers in the tenet “Once in grace, always in grace,” who yet had their “infirmities” about them, and whose feet still clung to the miry clay, though they did think their heads were in heavenly places!