How write upon the board: 'This is the forest primeval,' and a dozen lines or so following, from this slip.

Scan that for me; parse it; show me the relations of words and clauses, and all that sort of thing." A pause; some only half-confident explanation, and enlargement upon the subject by the young man.
The professor again: "H-u-u-m--well--now you may write--no, you needn't--just tell me the difference, in your opinion, between what are known as conjunctions and prepositions.

Say what you please.

We ask no odds of them.

Be utterly free in your comment." More explanations by the young man.