But I can tell you almost everything there is in my books, I've read them so many times, and that will amuse you.

And I can tell you something about Geography too,--that's about the world we live in,--very useful and interesting.

Did you ever hear about Columbus ?" Maggie's eyes had begun to sparkle and her cheeks to flush,--she was really beginning to instruct the gypsies, and gaining great influence over them.

The gypsies themselves were not without amazement at this talk, though their attention was divided by the contents of Maggie's pocket, which the friend at her right hand had by this time emptied without attracting her notice.
"Is that where you live, my little lady ?" said the old woman, at the mention of Columbus.
"Oh, no!" said Maggie, with some pity; "Columbus was a very wonderful man, who found out half the world, and they put chains on him and treated him very badly, you know; it's in my Catechism of Geography, but perhaps it's rather too long to tell before tea--_I want my tea so_." The last words burst from Maggie, in spite of herself, with a sudden drop from patronizing instruction to simple peevishness.
"Why, she's hungry, poor little lady," said the younger woman.

"Give her some o' the cold victual.