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confine himself—are as plain as A B C,
to the young mind. Why don’t such
men learn these words, if they never
have learned them, and learn the mode
of stringing them together for their
young hearers ?

‘But the faculty of interesting chil-
dren is natural to some people. Nature
don’t give it to everybody. It doesn’t
come natural to me.”

Nonsense. Neither does your Latin
come natural to you, nor your Greek,
nor your Hebrew. I don’t believe you
was born with either of these languages
flowing very glibly from your tongue,

The fact is, you must come down—not
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