Ch. I did not know they were of much importance.
Fa. No! Do you think that one who may probably visit most countries in Europe, and their foreign settlements, should be able to converse in no other language than his own? If the knowledge of languages is not useful to him, I know not to whom it is so. He can hardly do at all without knowing some; and the more the better.
Ch. Poor Tom! then I doubt he has not chosen so well as he thinks.
Fa. I doubt so, too.
Here ended the conversation. They soon after reached home, and Charles did not forget to desire his father to show him on the globe what longitude and latitude meant.
THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES.
Charles. Papa, you grow very lazy. Last winter you used to tell us stories, and now you never tell us any; and we are all got round the fire quite ready to hear you. Pray, dear papa, let us have a very pretty one.
Father. With all my heart—What shall it be?
Ch. A bloody murder, papa!
Fa. A bloody murder! Well then—once upon a time some men dressed all alike....