I hope to improve you before your visit is over.

Do you know anything of geography?
Come, I will give you an easy question.

Where is England situated on the map ?" "In the middle of the Red Sea," said Hetty briskly.
"My dear! why do you suppose so ?" "I see it up there on the map," said Hetty; "the sea is marked in red all round it." Nell tittered again.

Phyllis put her fingers in her ears, determined to hear no more of Hetty's absurdities.
"You make a great mistake," said Miss Davis, and spreading a map before Hetty, the governess gave her a lesson on the position of the Red Sea and the relative position of England.
"Have you learned anything at all of numbers ?" "I can count on my fingers," said Hetty; "I add up the fives and I can reckon up to a hundred that way." "You must learn a better way of counting than that.

Have you never learned the multiplication table ?" "My mamma's tables are all ebony or marble," said Hetty, putting on a bewildered air, "but I will count them up if you like.