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The two chatted together while Miss Caroline put Ann through a searching catechism as to her past, present, and future mode of life, including the age at which her parents had died, the particular kind of work she had undertaken during the war appearing somewhat taken aback when Ann explained that she had driven a car, the making of shirts and mufflers coming more within the scope of Caroline's own idea as to what was "suitable" work for a young girl and the length of time she had lived with Lady Susan.
Such a catechism will not be satisfactory unless the child can answer the questions of its own accord without having to learn the answers; indeed the child will often ask the questions itself. An example is required to make my meaning plain and I feel how ill equipped I am to furnish such an example. I will try to give some sort of outline of my meaning.
At first the universal education was advocated for the sake of the church. Martin Luther believed that every child should have schooling so that he might be able to read the Bible and study the catechism.
How many tender hearts have you left to sigh for your errors, amid shady bowers, while you have been ploughing that is the word, I believe ploughing the salt-sea ocean?" "Few sigh for me," returned Wilder, thoughtfully, though he evidently began to chafe a little under this free sort of catechism. "Let us now return to our study of the tower. What think you has been its object?"
She took the Shorter Catechism, which, in those days, had always an alphabet as janitor to the gates of its mysteries who, with the catechism as a consequence even dimly foreboded, would even have learned it? and showed Gibbie the letters, naming each several times, and going over them repeatedly. Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur."
To see that their faces were washed, their clothes mended, and their catechism learned; to see that they did not pick the flowers, nor throw stones at the chickens, nor sophisticate the great house dog, was an accumulation of care that devolved almost entirely on Mrs. Abigail, so that, by her own account, she lived and throve by a perpetual miracle.
He asked me if I could say my "Questions" that is, the catechism of the Kirk of Scotland and asked a question at random to ascertain the fact. He did the same to the servants. When I was between eight and nine years old, my father came home from sea, and was shocked to find me such a savage.
On the contrary, honest indifference minds the family honest indifference, mark, buys the beef and mutton, reckons the household linen eschews parties and all places of fashionable resort, attends to the children sees them educated, bled, blistered, et cetera, when necessary; and, what is still better, looks to their religion, hears them their catechism, brings them, in their clean bibs and tuckers, to church, and rewards that one who carries home most of the sermon with a large lump of sugar-candy."
They shall tell you themselves whether my rules make any difference between them and you. Helena! Eunice! do I allow you to read novels? do I allow you to go to the play?" We said, "No" and hoped it was over. But he had not done yet. He turned to Helena. "Answer some of the questions," he went on, "from my Manual of Christian Obligation, which the girls call my catechism."
"You've surely been gey hard ca'd wherever you hae been," and there was a note of curiosity in her voice. "I want a drink," he broke in abruptly, "an' it doesna matter a damn to you whether I hae been hard ca'd or no'. You're surely hellish keen to hae news. Dis a' your customers get the Catechism when they come in here?" he queried.
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