I shall very much prefer to have you give the sense in your own words: then I shall know that you understand the meaning of the text, and are not repeating sounds merely like a parrot; that you have not been going over the words without trying to take in the ideas they are meant to express." "But suppose we can't catch the writer's meaning ?" "If you fail to do so, after giving your best efforts to the task, your teacher will always be ready to explain to the best of his ability," was the smiling rejoinder.

"But remember, all of you, that I intend you to use your own brains with as little assistance from other people's as possible.

Mind as well as body grows strong by exercise." "But we haven't decided when we are to begin," said Lulu.
"I vote for to-morrow," said Max: "afternoons will give us time enough to do any thing else we want to." "Yes: I second the motion," she said.
"And I third it," added Grace.

"Now, papa, you are laughing at me, and so is Max.

Wasn't that the right way to say it ?" "It was 'most as right as Lu's," said Max.
"And both will do well enough," said their father.
"I was going to ask if I might have Eva here to visit me to-morrow, papa," said Lulu; "but she'll be busy with lessons in the morning too.
May I ask her to come in the afternoon ?" "Yes: you can ask her this evening; she will be here with the rest.
"Now I have something else to show you.