But if I wrote it myself, then I shouldn't get tired of it; it would be what pleased me, and not what pleased somebody else." "Well," said Donal, after thinking for a moment, "suppose you begin to write a book!" "Oh, that will be fun!--much better than learning verbs and nouns!" "But the verbs and nouns are just the things that go to make a story--with not a few adjectives and adverbs, and a host of conjunctions; and, if it be a very moving story, a good many interjections! These all you have got to put together with good choice, or the story will not be one you would care to read .-- Perhaps you had better not begin till I see whether you know enough about those verbs and nouns to do the thing decently.

Show me your school-books." "There they all are--on that shelf! I haven't opened one of them since Percy came home.

He laughed at them all, and so Arkie--that's lady Arctura, told him he might teach me himself.

And he wouldn't; and she wouldn't--with him to laugh at her.

And I've had such a jolly time ever since--reading books out of the library! Have you seen the library, Mr.Grant ?" "No; I've seen nothing yet.