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