Dr.
Henry, who at first had occupied himself with some figures on a sheet of paper, looked up and listened attentively.
'Where were you at school,' he asked.

'Who taught you Greek ?' 'My father taught me, sir.' 'Ah! You have got a very peculiar pronunciation, and you've made an extraordinary number of mistakes in accentuation and quantity, but you've read as if St.Paul meant something.

Now translate.' 'You have given me,' he said, when Hyacinth had finished, 'the Authorized Version word for word.

Can you do no better than that ?' 'I can do it differently,' said Hyacinth, 'not better.' 'Do you know any Greek outside of the New Testament ?' Hyacinth repeated a few lines from Homer.
'That book of the "Odyssey" is not in the college course,' said Dr.
Henry.

'How did you come to read it ?' Hyacinth had no explanation to give.