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whistling as he worked, when I broke
in upon him with the question, “ Phil,
what is the meaning of discovered ?”
Phil went on whistling, and paid no
attention to me, until 1 had repeated
the question three or four times, when
he ceased to whistle for a moment, and
said, impatiently, “Oh, it means, found
out for the first time.”

Well, then, my teacher had been
found out, for the first time, by Chris-
topher Columbus, a native of Genore,
but farther than that I never got, and
what she was found out in always re-
mained a mystery to me.

Soon after this, the little school broke