A Tived Boy. 119

 

said, and to be very good children.
They do say that somehow or other
she got them all, except one, to learn
every one of their letters on one day,
so that there should be no more
trouble with them.

Well, it was a good job over
certainly; but I think they must have
been very clever, little children. ot
least, I am sure that 7 couldn’t have
learnt all the letters in one day, and
I don’t believe I could now, though
[ve been grown up a long, long
time. It took Johnny’s sister longer,
too; but then she had known them
all a long while now, and had learnt
a great many other things since. So
little May forgot how hard it was at