But it was only a few minutes until he came to mother and gave her a Bible to mark the verses he had to learn to recite at Sunday-school next day.

Mother couldn't take the time when she had company, so she asked if he weren't big enough to pick out ten proper verses and learn them by himself, and he said of course he was.
He took his Bible and he and May and I sat on the back steps and studied our verses.

He and May were so big they had ten; but I had only two, and mine were not very long.

Leon giggled half the time he was studying.

I haven't found anything so very funny in the Bible.
Every few minutes he would whisper to himself: "THAT'S A GOOD ONE!" He took the book and heard May do hers until she had them perfectly, then he went and sat on the back fence with his book and studied as I never before had seen him.