. Timboo and Joliba; or The art of being useful . and look at them carefullyyourself, and if he says d while you are pointing at 6, or e whileyou are pointing at d^ make a mark against him on the sand. So Fanny spent ten minutes very agreeably to herself in at-tempting to impress on Jolibas mind the distinction between d and 6, and though she failedentirely in teaching lihn^ shetaught herself very effectu-ally. At last she began to be alittle discouraged with herpupil. Ill tell you what thedifficulty is, said does not notice. Hedoes Tiotpay attention. Youwatch his eyes, and you wills
. Timboo and Joliba; or The art of being useful . and look at them carefullyyourself, and if he says d while you are pointing at 6, or e whileyou are pointing at d^ make a mark against him on the sand. So Fanny spent ten minutes very agreeably to herself in at-tempting to impress on Jolibas mind the distinction between d and 6, and though she failedentirely in teaching lihn^ shetaught herself very effectu-ally. At last she began to be alittle discouraged with herpupil. Ill tell you what thedifficulty is, said does not notice. Hedoes Tiotpay attention. Youwatch his eyes, and you willsee that they are wandering about every where while you are point-ing at the letters. The fact is, the way to learn a letter is to lookat it very closely and attentively, and ^^^ just exactly what theshape of it is, so that you will know it again when you see this is the very thing that Joliba wont do. In fact, I sup-pose he canH do it. He is nothing but a parrot. He cant you can thinli., and so you can learn. Some children dont. FANNY S PUPIL. TIMBOOS STUDIES. 107 Influence that Timboo exerted over the boys. Their studies. think, and so tliey dont learn. Tliey only say over what theteacher says to them, without any attention or thought, just likeso many parrots. By such methods, and by such counsels and instructions astliese, Timboo gained a great influence over Fannys mind, andboth teacher and pupil made very rapid progress in learning theirletters. Timboo exercised quite a good influence over the boys, too, in re-spect to their studies at school, by talking to them, when they camehome at night, about what they had learned. Some of their studies,it is true, he could not understand any thing about, such as arith-metic, for example, which was, of course, entirely beyond Tiraboosreach at present. The boys tried to give him some explanations inrespect to the sums they were then doing, but they soon bewildered]iim entirely -yvith their talk about numerators and de
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