All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

ALL LX A GARDEN FAIR. 8i
a copious vocabulary and could read with
])lcasurc and talk freely, though still with
plenty of mistakes, their teacher set them to
write; they read a story one evening and
wrote it down the next ; then tliey compared
what they had written willi what tliey had
read and were put to shame. It was necessary
to find out many more things in the grammar ;
they found these out.
Hector rhilipon,in fad, was a man of ideas
and of clear mind. lie wanted the boys to
learn, not to pretend. He therefore made
them teach themselves by an intelligent pro-
cess, while he taught his girls by the con-
ventional process. In two years they really
knew French. Hector, by this most precious
gift, lifted them by one step out of the lower
levels of olerker}^ ;
doubled.
their commercial value was
One does not talk every evening with a
man who has read, and can think, and has
acted among his fellow-men, without results.
First of all, the boys read quantities of books,
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