Now do you think you can remember how it is called?"
"Bumblebee!" repeated Pomp triumphantly.
Pomp's error was corrected, and the lesson proceeded.
"What is the next letter?" asked Frank, indicating it with the
point of his knife-blade.
"X," answered the pupil readily.
"No, Pomp," was the dismayed reply. "It is very different from
X."
"Dat's him name at school," said Pomp positively.
"No, Pomp, you are mistaken. That is X, away down there."
"Perhaps him change his name," suggested Pomp.
"No. The letters never change their names. I don't think you know
your lesson, Pomp. just listen to me while I tell you the names
of some of the letters, and try to remember them."
When this was done, Pomp was directed to sit down on the cricket,
and study his lesson for twenty Minutes, at the end of which he
might again recite.
Pomp sat down, and for five minutes seemed absorbed in his book.
Then, unfortunately, the cat walked into the room, and soon
attracted the attention of the young student.
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