Our French lessons--as the German later--included reading from the very first.

On the day on which we began German we began reading Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," and the verbs given to us to copy out were those that had occurred in the reading.

We learned much by heart, but always things that in themselves were worthy to be learned.

We were never given the dry questions and answers which lazy teachers so much affect.

We were taught history by one reading aloud while the others worked--the boys as well as the girls learning the use of the needle.
"It's like a girl to sew," said a little fellow, indignantly, one day.
"It is like a baby to have to run after a girl if you want a button sewn on," quoth Auntie.