had a very dense head for figures that possessed with a general idea of the globe she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected that she would into tears on being required by the mental process immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty seven muslin caps at that she was as low down in the as low could be that after eight weeks of into the elements of political economy she had only yesterday been set right by a three feet high for returning to the question what is the first principle of this science the absurd answer to do unto others as i would that they should do unto me mr observed t� x ij h ed times very bad that it showed the necessity of infinite grinding at the mill of knowledge as per system blue book report and statements a to z and that must be kept to it so was kept to it and became very low spirited but no wiser it would be a fine thing to be you miss she said one night when had endeavored to make her for next day something clearer to her do you think so i should know so much miss all that is difficult to me now would be so easy then you might not be the better for it submitted a little hesitation i should not be the worse miss to which miss answered i don t know that there had been so little communication between these both because life at stone lodge went round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference and because of the relative to s past career � that they were still almost strangers with her dark eyes directed to s face was uncertain whether to say more or to remain silent you are more useful to my mother and more pleasant with her than i can ever be resumed you are pleasanter to yourself than i am to but if you please miss pleaded i am � so stupid with a brighter laugh than usual told her she would be wiser by and by you don t know said half crying what a stupid girl i am all through school hours i make mistakes mr and mrs m call me up over and over again regularly to make mistakes i can t help them they seem to come natural to me mr and mrs m never make any mistakes themselves i suppose � no she eagerly returned they know every thing tell me some of your mistakes am almost ashamed said t � x hard � s to day for instance mr m was explaining to iu about natural prosperity national i think it must have been yes it was � but isn t it the same she timidly asked i you had better say national as he said bo with her dry reserve national prosperity and ho said now this is a nation and in this nation there are fifty millions of money isn t this a prosperous nation girl number twenty isn t this a prosperous nation and a n t you in a state what did you say v asked miss i said i didn t know i thought i couldn t whether it was a prosperous nation or not and whether i was in a state or not unless i knew who had got the and whether any of it was mine but that had nothing to do with it it was not in the figures at all said wiping ha eyes that was a great mistake of yours observed yes miss i know it was now then mr m said he would try me again and he said this is an immense town and in it there are a million of inhabitants and only five and twenty are starved to death in the streets in the course of a year what is your remark on that proportion and my remark was � for i couldn t think of a better one � that i thought it must be just as hard upon those who were starved whether the others were a million or a million million and that was wrong too of course it was then mr m said he would try me once and he said here are the � said yes miss � they always remind me of and that s another of my k f accidents upon the sea and i find mr m said that in a given time a hundred thousand persons went to sea on long voyages and only five of them were drowned or burned to death what is the and i said miss here fairly sobbed as with extreme to her greatest error i said it was nothing i� ha d times nothing nothing miss � to the relations and friends of the people who were killed i shall never learn said and the worst of all is that although my poor father wished me so much to learn and although i am so anxious to learn because he wished me to i am afraid i don t like it stood looking at the pretty modest head as it drooped abashed before her until it was raised again to glance at her face then she asked did your father know so much himself that he wished you to be well taught too hesitated before replying and so plainly showed her sense that they were entering on forbidden ground that added no one hears us and if any one did i am sure no harm could be found in such an innocent question no miss answered upon this encouragement shaking her head father knows very little indeed it s as much as he can do to write and it s more than people in general can 