Chapter V
At School at Mengo
I propose to speak more especially of the school in Mengo, with which we have had most to do. One of our pictures shows an infants' class learning to read the alphabet. It sounds to a newcomer rather a noisy performance to have one pupil calling out the name of a letter, and all the class repeating it after him, but it is not disturbing to the native ear. Many of our children can read extremely well by the time they are six or seven years of age, and it is a curious thing that most children can read with the book turned upside down or sideways, just as
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