In geography, for instance, what a number of voyages and journeys have had to be made, and books to record them written; then what a number of these books to be read, and the facts gathered out of them, before a single map could be drawn, not to say a geography book printed! Whereas now he could learn a multitude of things about the various countries, their peoples and animals and plants, their mountains and rivers and lakes and cities, without having set his foot beyond the parish in which he was born.

And so with everything else after its kind.

But it is more of what Willie learned to do than what he learned to know that I have to treat.
When he went to school, his father made him a present of a pocket-knife.
He had had one before, but not a very good one; and this, having three blades, all very sharp, he found a wonderful treasure of recourse.

His father also bought him a nice new slate.
Now there was another handy boy at school, a couple of years older than Willie, whose father was a carpenter.

He had cut on the frame of his slate, not his initials only, but his whole name and address,--_Alexander Spelman, Priory Leas_.