You did not, gentle reader, the first time it came to you.
The Squire was puzzled.

He had given out all the hard words in the book.
He again pulled the top of his head forward.

Then he wiped his spectacles and put them on.

Then out of the depths of his pocket he fished up a list of words just coming into use in those days--words not in the spelling-book.

He regarded the paper attentively with his blue right eye.