"Yes," he answered, "unless you think you know all about it already."
"I don't know the first thing about it."
"Then, of course, you ought to study it. Why shouldn't you?"
"But I can't make nothin' out of it. I can't understand it nohow."
"Then you need somebody to explain it to you."
"It's awful stupid."
"I don't think you will find it so when you come to know more about it. I shall be ready to explain it. I think I can make you understand it."
Another had a sum he could not do. So James found the recess pass quickly away, and again the horde of scholars poured into the school-room.
It was not till afternoon that the conflict came.
Tom Bassett belonged to the first class in geography.