'" "Can you tell me the subject of any of your lessons?" "I can
just remember one story about a dog that was crossing a river on a plank
with a piece of meat in his mouth, and when he saw his shadder in the
water, made a spring at it and dropped the meat which he held in his
mouth, and it was at once carried away by the current." "Well," said the
teacher, "as you remember the story so well, you can perhaps tell me
what lesson we can learn from this fable." "I thought," replied the boy,
"when I read the story, that the best way is to hold on to what we are
sure of, and not grab after a shadder and lose the whole." "Your idea is
certainly a correct one," said the master, "and now we will turn to some
other branch of study; can you cipher?" "Don't know, I never tried,"
replied the boy, with the greatest coolness imaginable. "Well," replied
the teacher, "we will after a time see how you succeed, when you _do_
try. Can you tell me what the study of Geography teaches us!" "O," said
the boy, "geography tells all about the world, the folks who live in it,
and 'most every thing else." The master then asked him some questions
regarding the divisions of land and water, and for a short time he
answered with some degree of correctness.
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