“Yes, sir, I know them.”
“And the months in the year, perhaps.”
“Yes, sir.”
“And you could probably repeat the names of your brothers and sisters, and all your father’s servants, and half the people in the village besides.”
“I believe I could, sir.”
“Well—and is hic, hæc, hoc, more difficult to remember than these?”
Samuel was silent.
“Have you learned anything of accounts?”
“I went into addition, sir, but I did not go on with it.”
“Why so?”