She needed no lesson in Webster's First Reader, but
Juferouw Van Antwerp had troubles of her own in elucidating to one, at
least, of her little boys, the mysteries of a, b, ab and c, a, t, cat.
Althea could write a fair hand while her slow brother was still
struggling with pot hooks and hangers. She could always spell correctly
without the aid of a Book, while to me the spelling lesson was the
hardest of tasks. Her studies at the Farm were easy and light--mine,
heavy and difficult.
One advantage of the high place of president's assistant was that it
gave Cedar two free hours when other pupils were doing their industrial
stunts. These hours were devoted to study, and they were surely needed.
Manual training came, perhaps, by nature and in the industrial course I
progressed rapidly, but for the rest Miss Ripley was justified in her
remark that Cedar was not a "smart" scholar. However, steady Dutch
persistence compensated somewhat for lack of alert facility, and the
dull boy's lessons were fairly well learned, though at the cost of
patient toil.
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