It is very important that a child should see his teacher write his copies, for thus he will see how the letters should be formed.

Forester wrote four or five copies for Marco, and while he was writing them he gave him particular instructions about the manner of holding his pen, and shaping the letters.
"Now," said Forester, "you can not possibly have occasion to come to me about your writing; for here are pages enough for you to write upon for several days, and you have plenty of pens." "But I should think you would want to see whether I write it well," said Marco.
"I shall examine it carefully to-morrow morning," said Forester.
"Very well," said Marco; "after the writing will come the recess." "Yes," said Forester, "and then the reading." "What shall I read ?" asked Marco.
Forester then rose and went to one of the book-shelves, where there was a set of books, entitled the American Encyclopedia.

There were thirteen octavo volumes in the set.

It was rather too high for Marco to reach it, and so Forester took all the volumes down and placed them on a lower shelf, not far from the window, in a place where Marco could get easy access to them.
"There," said Forester; "there is your library.

The American Encyclopedia is a sort of a dictionary.