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menced to read. At first he proceeded slowly, and was often compelled to summon me to his assistance. After I explained to him the use of the dictionary and allowed him to keep one near at hand, this source of annoyance ceased, and he worked away by himself with a steadily increasing ease and rapidity.
There was one person who had observed all these proceedings with astonishment and disapproval. This was Briggs, the English gardener who
