32 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

language of children !”? Why don’t they
drill themselves in the use of it, then,
day in and day out, if it is necessary ?
Why they can speak Latin and Greek ;
aye, and Hebrew and Arabic, for ought
I know. But when they get up to talk
to an audience of bright-eyed boys and
girls, they are as dull, and dry, and
prosy, and tedious, as if they had eaten
one of their old dusty folio volumes for
breakfast. There are words enough in
the English tongue which the little folks
can understand, and there are ways
enough of putting them together, so
that the ideas one wants to express—or
ce:tainly the ideas to which he ought to