well as if they were reading properly. The reason for this is that in country districts, where most of the children reside for at least a part of the year, reading is usually taught from the small reading-book called the Mateka, and, as the children are very poor, only the teacher possesses a copy. This he holds for his own convenience the right way up, but as his pupils sit round him in a semicircle they look on the book inverted or sideways, with the result that they learn to read in these ways as they change their position day by day, and later on, when they possess a book of their own, they hold it in the proper way.
This habit is often a great convenience, for, in church, if a man has not a hymn book, but the worshipper standing behind him has one, he simply turns right round, looks the man behind him in the face, deciphers his hymn book upside down, and
