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The gaunt Sucatash murmured sadly: "Them pilgrims is sure smart on g'ography an' history." "An' sheep especially," said the one called Dave. "Ca ne fait rien!" said De Launay, pronouncing it almost like "sinferien" as he had heard the linguists of the A.
For himself he would 'a' suffered in silence. It was the constant oppression of the helpless little ones that saddened him. It was maddenin' to have to sit silent every day while tiny girls, no older than ten, was being hounded from one end of the g'ography to the other.
Why, I know 'em purty nigh off by heart! That's how-cum I kin talk so good when I stop to think. By repeatin' arter her I know the alphabet, the multiplication table, mental 'rithmetic up ter long dervision, some history, 'n' some g'ography but I hain't never seed a map, nor writin'. Her books is writ in blind." "I think you have learned a great deal," she smiled at him.
She had the reddish hair of the Binns and the pearl-blue eyes of the Rummelsbergers from over the mountains. Her ma was a Rummelsberger. She wasn't too spare, nor was she too fleshy; she was just rounded right; and when she smiled ah, boys, when Pinky Binn smiled at Ernest from behind her g'ography his heart went like its spring had broke. Yet he never showed it.
They spread blankets on the ground inside, and Benny declared it wanted nothing but a few Indians and tomahawks and bows and arrows lying round to make it look just like the picture in his g'ography. Benny's last thought was of his wigwam that night as he slid off into the delicious sleep that only rosy-cheeked, tired boys know.
The pleasantest mental exercise of childhood is the instruction of one's elders. Even Emmeline felt this. She took the geography class one day in a timid manner, putting her little hand first in the great horny fist of her friend. "Mr Button!" "Well, honey?" "I know g'ography." "And what's that?" asked Mr Button. This stumped Emmeline for a moment. "It's where places are," she said at last.
"Which places?" enquired he. "All sorts of places," replied Emmeline. "Mr Button!" "What is it, darlin'?" "Would you like to learn g'ography?" "I'm not wishful for larnin'," said the other hurriedly. "It makes me head buzz to hear them things they rade out of books." "Paddy," said Dick, who was strong on drawing that afternoon, "look here." "That's an elephant," he said in a dubious voice.
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