What ails your teeth, child ?" Involuntarily Mary's hand went up to her mouth, and Sally, who if she expected an answer, forgot to wait for it, continued.

"Do you know grammar, child ?" Mary replied that she had studied it a few months in Worcester, and a few weeks in Chicopee.
"Oh, I am so glad," said Sal, "for now I shall have an associate.

Why, the greatest objection I have to the kind of people one meets with here, is that they are so horribly vulgar in their conversation and murder the Queen's English so dreadfully.

But won't you and I have good times saying the rules in concert ?" Unfortunately Mary's knowledge of grammar was rather limited, and as she did not exactly fancy Sal's proposition, she answered that she had nearly forgotten all she ever knew of grammar.
"Oh, that's nothing, child that's nothing," said Sal.

"It will return to you gradually.