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STUDIES IN RAT CATCHING FOR 

 THE USE OF SCHOOLS. 



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CHAPTER I. 



In the following elementary treatise for the 

 use of public schools, I propose following 

 exactly the same plan as my parson (a good 

 fellow not afraid of a ferret or a rat) does 

 with his sermons — that is, divide it into 

 different heads, and then jumble up all the 



