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164 ° ATTENTION.

C. Oh dear! I wish ‘calling the word out
aloud would answer the purpose: ’

M. I cannot say*that it will, so my com-
parison is not a perfect one ; but I wished to
fix your attention, and-referred to something
that had amused you © But, in good earnest,
Charles, the only reason why Richard learns
more quickly than you do is, that he never
allows himself to think of anything else while
he is engaged with his lesson. You speak of
yourself as studying—as long as you are
holding the book in your hand, though in
fact you are not studying one quarter of the
time.