“And ‘splains’ the sums and makes the fractions easy.”
Here Benny heaved a sigh.
“I don’t like riffemtic; but Ned says, ‘Benny,
Be brave, my lad, and try.’”
“He has long patience, and he’s very clever.
Why, once he made a cart,
And once he made a trap that caught a sparrow,
And ’cause it hurt my heart
“To see the wild thing flutter, he soon freed it,
And smiled when off it fled;