THE GIRL’S STORY BOOK. 57

 

“Because, said Sue, “I have
come across the word in this
new book, and I don’t know
the meaning of it.”

“Why don’t you look in the
dictionary?” her mother asked.

Sue replied that she had
looked in the dictionary, and
had read what the dictionary
said over and over again, but
that she was not any wiser for it.

“What does the dictionary