30 THE TWO COUSINS.

 

is a great deal better than, “I
can’t.”

“Well, my dear,” Mrs. Wood-.
man said, “if you will learn
these verses, all of them, I will
give you a silver dollar; and
if you will learn the Ten Com-
mandments, after I have taught
you to read them, and a little
hymn: I will show you, by-and-
by, you may give me back
the dollar, and I will give you