"What do you mean, Miss Alice?"
"Geography, for instance; do you know it well?"
"Yes, Maam; I believe so; I am sure I have studied it till I am sick of it."
"Can you give me the boundaries of Great Thibet or Peru?"
Ellen hesitated.
"I had rather not try," she said "I am not sure. I can't remember those queer countries in Asia and South America, half so well as Europe and North America."
"Do you know anything about the surface of the country in Italy or France the character and condition of the people what kind of climate they have, and what grows there most freely?"
"Why, no, Maam," said Ellen; "nobody ever taught me that."
"Would you like to go over the atlas again, talking about all these matters, as well as the mere outlines of the countries you have studied before?"
"Oh, yes, dearly!" exclaimed Ellen.