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, I am as ignorant, you see, as you!" Dexter's face was a study. He seemed hurt and pleased at the same time, and his face was full of reproach as he said-- "Ignorant as me! Oh!" "There, I'll speak to papa about your lessons, and he will, I have no doubt, say a few words to Mr Limpney about trying to make your tasks easier, and explaining them a little more." "Will you!" cried the boy excitedly, and he caught her hands in his. "Certainly I will, Dexter." "Then I will try so hard, and I'll write down on pieces of paper all the things you don't want me to do, and carry 'em in my pockets, and take them out and look at them sometimes." "What!" cried Helen, laughing. "Well, that's what Mr Limpney told me to do, so that I should not forget the things he taught me. Look here!" He thrust his hand into his trousers-pocket, and brought out eagerly a crumpled-up piece of paper, but as he did so a number of oats flew out all over the room. "O Dexter! what a pocket! Now what could you do with oats?" "They were only for my rabbits," he said. "There, those are all nouns that end in _us_, feminine nouns. Look, _tribus, acus, porticus_. Isn't it stupid?" "It is the construction of the language, Dexter." "Yes; that's what Mr Limpney said. There, I shall put down everything you don't like me to do on a piece of paper that way; and take it out and read it, so as to remember it." "Try another way, Dexter." "How?" he said wonderingly. "By fixing these things in your heart, and not on paper," Helen said, and she left the room. "Well, that's the way to learn them by heart," said the boy to himself thoughtfully, as with brow knit he seated himself by a table, took a sheet of paper, and began diligently to write in a fairly neat hand, making entry after entry; and the principal of these was-- "Bob Dimsted: not to talk to him." The next day the doctor had a chat with Mr Limpney respecting Dexter and his progress. "You see," said the doctor, "the boy has not had the advantages lads have at good schools; and he feels these lessons to be extremely difficult. Give him time." "Oh, certainly, Doctor Grayson," said Mr Limpney. "I have only one wish, and that is to bring the boy on. He is behind to a terrible extent." "Yes, yes, of course," said the doctor; "but make it as easy for him as you can--for the present, you know. After a time he will be stronger in the brain." Mr Limpney, BA, l
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