The wolf could catch lambs, but he could not learn his letters.

So my little Alice can dress dollies, but she does not know how to take care of babies." "O, papa, I didn't choke him _very_ much." "I was only telling you I do not think you at all to blame.

Little girls like you are not expected to have judgment like grown women.

If you only do the best you know how, it is all that should be required of you." Dotty's face emerged from the cloud.

She looked away down the aisle at Mrs.Lovejoy, who was patting the uninteresting baby to sleep.
"Well," thought she, her self-esteem reviving, "I wish that woman only could know I wasn't to blame! I don't believe _she_ could have take care of that baby when she was six years old." "Here we are at Boston," said Mr.Parlin.