"I read first. Four little girls and two boys read. We all stood in a row."
"What then?"
"We spelled. But I did not know where the lesson was, and I think Mrs. Webb gave me easy words."
"And you did not enjoy that?" Uncle Leverett gave a short laugh.
"I was glad not to miss," she replied gravely.
"Mrs. Webb uses Dilworth's speller," said Mrs. Leverett, "and so I gave her Betty's. But she has a different reader. She thought Doris read uncommon well."
"And what came next?"
"They said tables all together. Why do they call them tables?"
"Because a system of calculation would be too long a name," he answered dryly.
Doris looked perplexed. "Then there was geography. What a large place America is!" and she sighed.