yellow curls, was taken to the home of his grand- LITTLE 

 mother. The Rev. Barnabas Smith didn't like babies JOURNEYS 

 as well as he at first thought. 



Grandparents are inclined to be lax in their discipline. 

 And anyway it is no particular difference if they are 

 a' scarcity of discipline is better than too much. More 

 boys have been ruined by the rod than saved by it 

 love is a good substitute for a cat-o' -nine-tails. 

 There were several children born to the Rev. Barnabas 

 Smith and his wife and all were disciplined for their 

 own good. Isaac, a few miles away, snuggled in the 

 arms of his ol' grandmother when he was bad and 

 went scot free. 



Many years after, Sir Isaac Newton in an address on 

 education at Cambridge playfully referred to the fact 

 that in his boyhood he did not have to prevaricate to 

 escape punishment, his grandmother being always will- 

 ing to lie for him. His grandmother was his first teacher 







and his best friend as long as she lived. 

 "When he was twelve years old he "was sent to the vil- 

 lage school at Grantham, eight miles away. There he 

 boarded with a family by the name of Clark, and at 

 odd times helped in the apothecary shop of Mr. Clark, 

 cleaning bottles and making pills. He himself has told 

 us that the working with mortar and pestle, cutting 

 the pills in exact cubes, and then rolling one in each 

 hand between thumb and finger, did him a lot of good 

 whether the patients were benefited or not. The genial 

 apothecary also explained that pills were for those who 

 made and sold them, and that if they did no harm to 



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