Of course , I shall have to have a pointer , but I shall use it for pointing ONLY . '' `` So you mean to strap them instead ? Well , I do n't know but you 're right . A switch stings more at the time but the strap smarts longer , that 's a fact . '' `` I shall not use anything of the sort . I 'm not going to whip my pupils . '' `` Bless my soul , '' exclaimed Mr. Harrison in genuine astonishment , `` how do you lay out to keep order then ? '' `` I shall govern by affection , Mr. Harrison . '' `` It wo n't do , '' said Mr. Harrison , `` wo n't do at all , Anne . ` Spare the rod and spoil the child . ' When I went to school the master whipped me regular every day because he said if I was n't in mischief just then I was plotting it . '' `` Methods have changed since your schooldays , Mr. Harrison . '' `` But human nature has n't . Mark my words , you 'll never manage the young fry unless you keep a rod in pickle for them . The thing is impossible . '' `` Well , I 'm going to try my way first , '' said Anne , who had a fairly strong will of her own and was apt to cling very tenaciously to her theories . `` You 're pretty stubborn , I reckon , '' was Mr. Harrison 's way of putting it . `` Well , well , we 'll see . Someday when you get riled up ... and people with hair like yours are desperate apt to get riled ... you 'll forget all your pretty little notions and give some of them a whaling . You 're too young to be teaching anyhow ... far too young and childish . ''
Altogether , XXXXX went to bed that night in a rather pessimistic mood .
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