get hold of for practical purposes.

'He was in comfortable quarters, in one long low room, with a sunny
aspect. It looked fit for a student, with books all about, and
pictures, and photos of loved friends and places on the walls, but he
had no mind to enjoy it alone. There was sure to be some sick lad
there, wrapped up in his best rugs, in the warmest nook by the fire.
He had morning and afternoon school daily in the large schoolroom,
Mr. Dudley and Mr. Lask assisting him. School-keeping, in its
ordinary sense, was a drudgery to him, and very distasteful. He had
none of that bright lively way and readiness in catechising which
made some so successful in managing a large class of pupils at once,
but every person in the place loved to come to the evening classes in
his own room, where, in their own language, he opened to them the
Scriptures and spoke to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom
of God. It was in those private classes that he exercised such
wonderful influence; his musical voice, his holy face, his gentle
manner, all helping doubtless to impress and draw even the dullest.
Long after this he told me once how after these evening classes, one
by one, some young fellow or small boy would come back with a gentle
tap at the door, "I want to talk to you," and then and there the
heart would be laid open, and counsel asked of the beloved teacher.

'It was very pleasant to see him among his boys. They all used to go
off for a walk on Saturday with him, sometimes to town, and he as
full of fun with them as if they had been a party of Eton boys. He
had none of the conventional talk, so fatal to all true influence,
about degraded heathen. They were brethren, ignorant indeed, but
capable of acquiring the highest wisdom. It was a joke among some of
us, that when asked the meaning of a Nengone term of endearment he