We'll get papa to write and make him tell us what he wants." "Maybe he won't tell," said Winifred thoughtfully.

"I wish I could write." "Then why don't you set to and learn?
Nothing would please Governor so much." "Would it!" said Winifred with a brightened face.
"Asahel," she said, as Asahel came in a few minutes after, "mamma says Governor would like nothing so well as to have me learn to write." "I knew that before," said Asahel coolly.

"He was talking to me last summer about learning you." "Was he! Then will you Asahel?
Do you know yourself ?" "I know how to begin," said Asahel.
And after that many a sorrowful feeling was wrought into trammels and pothooks..