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Oh, dear! I have nothing to say! would come from a small child, hanging over a slate.
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Did you not go out for a walk yesterday? Auntie would question.
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Yes , would be sighed out;
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Nothing to say! And you walked in the lanes for an hour and saw nothing, little No-eyes? You must use your eyes better to-day. Then there was a very favorite
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, which proved an excellent way of teaching spelling. We used to write out lists of all the words we could think of, which sounded the same but were differently spelt. Thus:
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and so on; and great was the glory of the child who found the largest number. Our French lessons--as the German later--included reading from the very first. On the day on which we began German we began reading Schiller's
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Wilhelm Tell, and the verbs given to us to copy out were those that had occurred in the reading. We learned much by heart, but always things that in themselves were worthy to be learned. We were never given the dry questions and answers which lazy teachers so much affect. We were taught history by one reading aloud while the others worked--the boys as well as the girls learning the use of the needle.
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It's like a girl to sew, said a little fellow, indignantly, one day.
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It is like a baby to have to run after a girl if you want a button sewn on,