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ROMANCE AND REALITY.
CHAPTER VI.
"The schoolmaster is abroad."—Brougham.
"Now, be sure you learn your lesson, you tiresome child."
Juvenile Library.
"Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy; "the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring."
"I often wonder," replied Lord Mandeville, "how I ever learnt to read; and to this day I sympathise with the child in the song, who says,
'The rule of three doth puzzle me,
And practice drives me mad.'"
