8o Hints on Collecting Irish Folk-lore. 



If your boys come to my class I must teach that." I had not a 

 single Unitarian boy withdrawn from my class, nor a single 

 Jew from Old Testament lessons. One thing we can all do, 

 and that is the greatest thing of all, whether parents or 

 teachers — we should take the religious basis for granted. In 

 talking to a boy about right and wrong I always assume that 

 he is a Christian boy, and I find all boys respond to that, and 

 accept the position that as Christian boys in a Christian land 

 they ought to be living Christian lives. 



HINTS ON COLLECTING IRISH FOLK-LORE." 

 By Mr. W. H. Pattp:rson. 



Mr. Patterson read his paper upon the collection of Irish 

 folk-lore. He discussed the various modes of investigating this 

 class of subject, and described in detail those of the British 

 Association. 



