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126 EXERCICES DE COMPOSITION.<br />
Mr. L. What do you do when it rains?<br />
B. If it rains very hard I get under the hedge till it is over.<br />
Mr. L. What do you do when you are hungry<br />
go home? B. I sometimes eat a raw turnip.<br />
Mr. L. But if there are none?<br />
before it is time to<br />
B. Then I do as well as I can ; I work on and never think of it.<br />
7. Mr. L. Are you not dry sometimes this hot weather?<br />
B. Yes, but there is water enough.<br />
Mr. L. Why, my little fellow, you are quite a philosopher? B. Sir!<br />
Mr. L. I say you are quite a philosopher, but I am sure, you do<br />
Dot know what that means.<br />
B. JSTo, Sir no harm, I hope?<br />
Mr. L. No , no! (laughing). Well my boy , you seem to want nothing<br />
at all , so I shall not give you money to make you want anything. But<br />
were you ever at school?<br />
B. No, Sir; but daddy says I shall go after harvest.<br />
Mr. L. You will want books then?<br />
B. Yes, the boys have a spelling-book and a New Testament.<br />
Mr. L. Well then, I will give you them tell that it is<br />
your daddy so,<br />
because I thought you<br />
and<br />
a very good contented little now go to<br />
boy.<br />
your sheep again. B. I will,<br />
So<br />
Sir. Thank you.<br />
Mr. L. Good bye, Peter. B. Good bye, Sir.<br />
ISAAC OF YORK.<br />
(T. Aikin.)<br />
Art thou Isaac the Jew of York'? said Gurth, in Saxon. 'I am', re-<br />
plied Isaac, in the same language, (for his. traffic had rendered every<br />
tongue spoken in Britain familiar to him) 'and who art thou'?<br />
'That is not to the purpose', answered Gurth.<br />
'As much as my name is to thee', replied Isaac; 'for without knowing<br />
thine, how can I hold intercourse with thee'? 'Easily' answered Gurth;<br />
I, being to pay money, must know that I deliver it to the right person;<br />
thou, who art to receive it, wilt not, I think, care very greatly<br />
whose hand it is delivered*.<br />
by<br />
'0', said the Jew, 'you are come to pay moneys? Holy Father<br />
Abraham! that altereth our relation to each other. And from whom dost<br />
thou bring it?' 'From the Disinherited Knight', said Gurth, 'victor in<br />
this day's tournament. It is the price of the armour supplied to him