120 A Tived Boy.

the time to learn them, and Johnny
was quite tired before he got to X.

He had said them all very patiently
right through down to that letter, and
twice over each letter as May pointed ;
for he had made up his mind to be
a very wise boy. Still, when he got
to that one, which is the last but two,
you know, he could not help giving a
great yawn and saying: ‘ That’s
enough, May. Me tired. Do it
again morrow-day.’

And I am sure that if May had
been a big woman instead of a little
girl, she would have quite understood
how tired he was, and put the book
away for that day.

But you see she was not a grown up