FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL. 63

land,’ Lucy reddened, and pouted, and almost
wept with discontent.

She was a little consoled, however, at the result
of Mary’s examination in arithmetic, for it was
found that, though she could add and subtract, and
multiply and divide, she knew no rules, and no
table but the multiplication table. In spelling
and defining words, too, Mary was often at fault,
doing the first very imperfectly, and the last
scarcely at all.

‘¢ Well, Mary, how do youlike school, or, rather
how do you like your teacher, for you scarcely
know anything of school yet?’ inquired Mr.
Lovett, when the little girls returned home in the
afternoon.

“Qh! I like her very much, Uncle Lovett;
she was so good to me; she called me my dear,
and she said I had learned a great deal of his-
tory, and she put me in the English History
class.”

“Yes,” said Lucy, giving vent to the feclings
which had been painfully suppressed at school,
“and she put Cousin Mary in my geography class,
and I think it was very partial in her.”