“Not Arithmetic?” I said.
“No, he hasn’t a head for Arithmetic——”
“Course I haven’t!” said Bruno. “Mine head’s for hair. I haven’t got a lot of heads!”
“—and he ca’n’t learn his Multiplication-table——”
“I like History ever so much better,” Bruno remarked. “Oo has to repeat that Muddlecome table——”
“Well, and you have to repeat——”
“No, oo hasn’t!” Bruno interrupted. “History repeats itself. The Professor said so!”
Sylvie was arranging some letters on a board——E—V—I—L. “Now, Bruno,” she said, “what does that spell?”
Bruno looked at it, in solemn silence, for a minute. “I knows what it doosn’t spell!” he said at last.
“That’s no good,” said Sylvie. “What does it spell?”