98 SFohuny listens to Mr. Dowt Like.

 

‘Me won’t say A, B, C, May; me
read a story.’

‘Read a story! how can you,
Johnny, before you know your
letters? Come, now, be a steady
boy, and look at them.’

¢Oh! me don’t like them. © They
very stupid letters, me sure,’ said her
little pupil, jumping about and play-
ing all sorts of antics. ‘/"Eeach
Johnny a story, May.’

‘Yl vead you one afterwards, if
youll say the letters nicely, May
answered, eagerly catching at this
suggestion.

But Johnny was not in a learning
mood at all; and he would do no-
thing but caper about and turn