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is with a bone: he will not let anybody
speak to him. .

M. What, not to ask areasonable question?

.C. Oh! as to that, hevhelps me some-
times, when I cannot get on; but what I
mean is, if I ask him to look at anything
funny, or want to talk to him about any of
our plays for one minute, he says that I
disturb him, and take off his attention. “4

M. He complains that you take of his ~
attention, does he?

C. Yes, mamma. ‘

M. Richard has learned a very important
secret, I see. , '

C. A secret. What! one that helps him
to get his lessons ?

M. Yes.

C. I wish J could find it out. “

M. I can tell it to you in one word whieh
you used just now. It is as good as “ Open
Sésamé,” in the play of the Forty Thieves,
which you read the other day.

C. What'can it be?
M. Attention, Charles; attention! that

will open the door of your mind arid let the
lesson in.