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troduce French phrases very often, and one must know I have studied
the langiiage. What is the lesion for to-morrow? Oh, yes ; con­
jugation of purler. Let's see; how does it commence? Je parle, tu
parle i;, par— il pa— tl— well, il then !
“ Conjugations don't, amount to anything. I know some phrases
that are appropriate here and there, and in alm ost every locality; and
how's anybody going to know but what I have the conjugations all
by heart ?
“ H ave I got m y geom etery ? N o, I ’m just going to study it.
Thirty-ninth, is it not?
“ Let the triangle A B C, triangle A B— say, I do, have you read
about that Jersey elopement? 1 think it is Loo utterly utter.
“ O il! theorem.
11 L et the triangle A B C be right-angled at B. O n the side B C,
creet, erect the square A T. On the side- -did I tell you Sister Car-
raedoia gave me a new piece to-day, a sonata? Tt is really intense.
The tones fairly stir m y soul. I am never going to take anything
but sonatas after this. I got another new piece, too. Its name is
Etudes. Isn't it funny? I asked Tom tins noon what it means, and
lie says it is Greek for nothing. It is quite apropos, for there is really
nothing in ft— the same thing over and over.
“ W here was I ? Ok ! yes ; side A C the square A E . D raw the
line— come on, let's go at our astronom y. It’s on, A re the planets
inhabited ? Now, Ide, I think' they are, and I have thought about it
a great deal. T banged m y hair last night. I wanted a L angtry
’ijang just ;.oo bad for any use, but pa raved, and T had to give in,
Vos, I think they are inhabited. T should like to visit some o f them,
hut you would not catch me living in Venus. Eight seasons I Just think
how often we would have to have new outfits to keep lip with the styles,
u W ho I ! you are not going? I a m so sorry, but I suppose you
are tired, I am. It always makes me most sick to study a whole
evening like this, I think sister ought to give us a picture.”
And they \>o to school next morning and tell the other inrls how
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awfully hard they have studied.— B iu.ui M cDonald,