58 THE COUSINS.

her cheeks as Lucy thus published her want of
education. Mrs. Butler’s manner was always
gentle, but it was dignified as well as gentle, and
‘Lucy’s eye sank abashed beneath the grave ex-
pression of hers, as she said, ‘‘ When I desire any
information from you, Miss Lovett, I will address
myself to you.” She: then drew Mary nearer to
her, saying, “I know, my dear, that you have not
heen to school, and perhaps you have not had
vregular lessons at home; but: you have read.some
“books, have you'not?”
» Yes,-ma’am,’’: ¥

“« And what were they? Can you not tell me
something of them ?”’

““T have read. Early Lessons, and the Parent’s
Assistant, and Peter Parley’s books— all Peter
Parley’s books.”

‘‘ Then you have read his history of the United
States?”

“Yes, ma’am; and. I have read a much larger
history of the United States than that.”

“Perhaps, then, you can tell.me in what part
of the United Statcs the first settlement was
made ?”