old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

"THE HABIT OF SUCCESS*

teeth into the Later on, mice

A GOOD mouser at first will bring dead mice for the kittens to play with. The little ones will growl and stick their tiny bodies of the unresisting mice. that are only disabled will be brought and the kittens will have some resistance to overcome. Finally uninjured mice are brought, and if these escape from the kittens, they are caught by the mother and brought back. In this way confidence and real ability develop.

It is said that this same process is carried on by foxes in the training of their young; and that those who train terriers to catch rats follow a similar course. They bring rats whose teeth have either been drawn or become so dulled that they are incapable of effective biting. It is only after the pups have learned the knack of killing these unarmed rats that they are allowed to attack rats that have not been disabled. Sometimes it happens that a puppy not so trained in its first attack on a rat will be badly bitten; and the effect will be that the puppy is

*From "Mind and Work," by Luther H. Gulick. Doubleday, Page & Co. Copyright, 1908.