patent implements it was his favorite that the and constituted that culture of the mind which prepared it for the reception of any subsequent crop i say nothing against mr s theory if we are to have one for au minds his seems to me as good as any other f only know it turned out as for tom as if he had been plied with cheese in order to remedy a weakness which prevented him from it it is astonishing what a rent result one gets by changing the once call the brain an intellectual stomach and one s ingenious conception of the and as and seems to settle nothing but then it is open to some one else to follow great authorities and call the mind a sheet of white paper or a mirror in which case one s knowledge of the process becomes quite it was doubtless an ingenious idea to call the the ship of the desert but it would hardly lead one far in training that useful beast oh if you had had the advantage of being the modem instead of the greatest ancient would you not have mingled your praise of speech as a sign of high intelligence with a that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without � that we can so seldom declare what a thing is except by saying it is something else tom being abundant in no form of speech did not use any to declare his views as to the nature of latin he never called it an instrument of torture and it was not until he had got on some way in the next half year and in the that he was advanced enough to call it a bore and stuff at present in relation to this demand that he should learn latin and tom the mill ok thb was in a state of as blank concerning the and tendency of his sufferings as if he had been an innocent imprisoned in the split trunk of an ash tree in order to cure in cattle it is doubtless almost incredible to instructed minds of the present day that a boy of twelve not belonging strictly to the masses who are now understood to have the of mental darkness should have had no distinct idea how there came to be such a thing as latin on this earth yet so it was with tom it would have taken a long while to make conceivable to him that there ever existed a people who bought and sold sheep and oxen and the every day affairs of life through the medium of this language and still longer to make him understand should be called upon to learn it when its connection those affairs had become entirely latent so far as tom had gained any acquaintance with the at mr academy his knowledge was strictly correct but it went no farther the fact that they were in the new testament and mr was not the man to and his pupil s mind by and explaining or to reduce the effect of by mixing it with ex � information such as is given to girls yet strange to say under this vigorous treatment tom became more like a girl than he had ever been in his life before he had a large share of pride which had hitherto found itself very comfortable in the world old and in the sense of rights but now this same pride met with nothing but and tom was too clear sighted not to be aware that mr s standard of things was quite different was certainly something higher in the eyes of the world than that of the people he had been living among and that brought in contact with it he tom appeared uncouth and stupid he was by no means indifferent to this and his pride got into an uneasy condition which quite his boyish self satisfaction and gave him something of the girl s he was of a very firm not to say obstinate disposition but there was no brute like rebellion and in his nature the human and if it had occurred to him that he could enable himself to show some quickness at his lessons and so acquire mr s approbation by standing on one leg for an inconvenient length of time or his head against the wall or ny voluntary action of that sort he would certainly have tried it but no tom had never heard that these measures would the understanding or strengthen the verbal memory and he was not given to and thb mill ox thb it did to him that he could perhaps get some help by praying for it but as the prayers he said eye y were forms learned by heart he rather shrank firom the novelty and of introducing an passage on a topic of petition for which he was not aware of any precedent but one day when he had broken down for the fifth time in the of the third and mr convinced that this must be carelessness since it the bounds of possible stupidity had him veiy seriously pointing out that if he failed to seize the present golden opportunity of learning he would have to regret it when he became a man tom more miserable than usual determined to try his sole resource and that evening after his usual form of prayer for his parents and little sister he had begun to pray for she was a baby and that he might be able always to keep god s he added in the same low whisper and please to make me always remember my latin he paused a little to consider how he should pray about � whether he should ask to see what it meant or whether there was any other mental state which would be more to the case but at last he added and make mr say 