. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . ^ V. —-^^. EMMY LOU Set It down, said Mr. Bryan, turning— the date. Emmy Lou paused, uncertain. Had hesaid one thousand, eight hundred and nine, shewould have known ; that was the way one knewit in the Second Reader, but eighteen hundredwas confusing. Again Mr. Bryan looked around, to see thechubby little girl standing on her toes, chalk inhand, still uncertain. Mr. Bryans voice ex-pressed tried but laudable patience. Put it down—the date, said Mr. Bryan, eighteen hundred and nine. Emmy Lou put it down. She put it down in this way : ^ i8 lOO 9 Then it was he was


. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . ^ V. —-^^. EMMY LOU Set It down, said Mr. Bryan, turning— the date. Emmy Lou paused, uncertain. Had hesaid one thousand, eight hundred and nine, shewould have known ; that was the way one knewit in the Second Reader, but eighteen hundredwas confusing. Again Mr. Bryan looked around, to see thechubby little girl standing on her toes, chalk inhand, still uncertain. Mr. Bryans voice ex-pressed tried but laudable patience. Put it down—the date, said Mr. Bryan, eighteen hundred and nine. Emmy Lou put it down. She put it down in this way : ^ i8 lOO 9 Then it was he was astonished, appalled,chagrined; then it was he found it would benecessary to come even oftener to the ThirdReader to ground it in the rudiments of num-ber. But he did not always go when the lessonended. Directly following its work in the[88] I SING OF HONOUR ^ New Eclectic Practical and Mental PrimaryArithmetic, the class was given over to mas-tering Townsends New System of Drawing.


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