Second Girl. I shall like the play, and it will teach Charles to spell well.
First Girl. That is its use: we have sports of all kinds to make us quick: we have some to teach us to count; else I could not have been taught to do sums at three years old.
Second Girl. Were you?
First Girl. Yes; I was through the four rules by the time that most boys learn that two and two make four.
Second Girl. I wish you would teach me some of your sports; that I could teach Charles.
First Girl. Print words on a card; on the back write the parts of speech; let it be a sport for him to try if he can find what each one is; let him have the words, and place them so as to make sense; thus I give you these words:
you, done, do, be, would, by, as.
Place them in their right order, and make
Do as you would be done by.
Or give him two or three lines: here and there scratch out a word; let him tell what those words must be to make sense.