Schoolboys I have met.--Promising Britons.--Sly Boots.--Too Good for this World.--"No, thanks, we makes it."--French Dictionaries.--A Naughty Boy.--Mothers' Pets.--Dirty, but Beautiful.--John Bully.--High Collars and Brains.--Dictation and its Trials.--Not to be taken in.-- Unlucky Boys.--The Use of Two Ears.--A Boy with One Idea.--Master Whirligig.--The Influence of Athletics.--A Good Situation.--A Shrewd Boy of Business.--Master Algernon Cadwaladr Smyth and other Typical Schoolboys, 40 VI. French as she is Traduced.--More Grumblings.--"La Critique" is not the Critic's Wife.--Bossuet's Prose, and how it reads in English.--Nothing improves by Translation except a Bishop.--A Few French "Howlers."-- Valuable Hints on translating Unseen Passages, 72 VII. English Boys on French Etymologies.--Why "Silence" is the only French Noun ending in "ence" that is of the Masculine Gender.--A Valuable Service rendered by the Author to his Land of Adoption.--Learned Etymologies.--Return to old Philological Methods.--Remarkable Questions.--Written and Oral Examinations.--A Kind Examiner.--How long would it take the Moon to Fall to the Earth?--How many Yards of Cloth it takes to cover an Ass, 80 VIII. English Boys on French Composition.--"Go ahead" is not in French "Allez une Tête."--How Boys set about French Composition.--A Written Proof of their Guilt.--How Large Advertisements can help them.--A Stumbling-Block cleared away, 90 IX. Suggestions and Hints for the Class Room.--Boys on History and Geography.--"Maxims" and "Wise Thoughts."--Advice to those about to Teach.--"Sir," and not "Mossoo."--"Frauleins" and "Mademoiselles."-- Check your Love for Boys.--No Credit.--We are all liable to make Mistakes.--I get an insight into "Stocks," 95 X. English Boys' Patriotism put to a Severe Test.--Their Opinion of French Victories.--King Louis VI. of France and the English Soldier at the Battle of Brenneville.--An English Boy on French Wrestling.--Young Tory Democrats.--"Imperium et Libertas."--A Patriotic Answer.--Duck and Drake, 110 XI. Cricket.--I have an Unsuccessful Try at it.--Boys' Opinion of my Athletic Qualities.--French and English Athletes.--Feats of Skill and Strength _versus_ Feats of Endurance and Brute Force.--A Case of Eviction by Force of Arms, 116 XII. Old Pupils.--Acquaintances renewed.--Lively Recollections revived.--It is easier to Teach French than to Learn it.--A Testimonial refused to a French Master.--"How de do?"--"That's What-d'ye-call-him, the French Master," 121 XIII.