What's a noun, and give examples." "A noun's a name.

As, candy, heart, slipper." "What's a compound noun ?" "Two names,--as chicken salad,--Philip Van Reypen,--moonlight." "What's a mood ?" "Something you fall into,--as a ditch,--or love." "What is an article ?" "A piece of fancy work for sale at a fair." "What's a conjunction ?" "Anything that joins,--as the marriage ceremony, or hooks and eyes." "Good.

Now for arithmetic.

If you are at home of an evening, and a chap calls on you, and then I come to call, and take half your attention from him, what is left ?" "The chap!" "Right! Now, definitions.

What do you mean by forever ?" "Until to-morrow!" returned Betty, laughing.
"Never ?" "Not until to-morrow!" "How do you spell No ?" "Y-e-s." "Oh, Betty," exclaimed Patty, laughing, "I didn't know you were so witty!" "Good gracious! don't call me _that!_ Here, stop this examination right now! I _won't_ be called witty.