'Now give us the French for that word,' said the man; and she instantly brought CHEVAL.

'Now, as you are at an Englishman's house, give it to us in English;' and she brought me HORSE.

Then we spelt some words wrong, and she corrected them with wonderful accuracy.

But she did not seem to like it, and whined and growled and looked so worried, that she was allowed to go and rest and eat cakes in a corner.
"Then Lyda took her place on the table, and did sums on the slate with a set of figures.

Also mental arithmetic, which was very pretty.