"A circle," says Peter, drawing one on paper,—"a circle is a plane figure, bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre."
"How can I remember all that stuff?" said Harry.
"Stuff! Do you call it stuff, sir?" said Peter, snapping him twice on his closely-shorn head: "I will teach you not to call my definitions stuff."
"What's a definition?" asked Tommy.
"A definition," said Peter, "is what I say to you when I tell you what a thing means. If I ask you what green is, and I tell you it's the color of fresh summer grass, I give you a definition."
"School is out!" cried Harry. "Peter uses too many big words for us. Hallo! there's Bob, the butcher's dog. I'm going to have a frolic with him. Good-by, drawing-master!"
And so the school was broken up. "Never did I see boys behave so in school-time," said the teacher.
I hope his pupils will be more attentive the next time he tries to teach them how to draw.
Uncle Charles.
