Practice at length renders them perfect, and in three or four years their education is considered complete.

Thus it is, that many who can read the Koran with great rapidity, cannot peruse a line of any other book.
Arithmetic is wholly put of the question.

On breaking up for the day, the master and all the scholars recite a prayer.

The school-hours are by no means regular, being only when the fighi has nothing else to do.

Morning early, or late in the evening, are the general times for study.