In that school they had slender oblong pasteboard blue tickets, each with a verse from the Testament printed on it, and you could get a blue ticket by reciting two verses.

By reciting five verses you could get three blue tickets, and you could trade these at the bookcase and borrow a book for a week.

I was under Mr.Richmond's spiritual care every now and then for two or three years, and he was never hard upon me.

I always recited the same five verses every Sunday.

He was always satisfied with the performance.