_You._ Yes. After that we learn sentences, and we raise in the child’s mind a few more simple pictures of Nature by repeating several times such statements as: A pig had a fig. The author introduces us to Ben, who can _sup_ sop. Ben, however, has a fat pup, and this pup cannot _sip_ sop. My daughter, as I said, has a logical mind, and she immediately asked if Ben’s pup could _sup_ sop. She had perceived at once that if he could neither sip nor sup the unfortunate animal was cut off from sop altogether. I said I didn’t know. I don’t. But I see that Ben fed Poll on bun, so I expect he gave the pup some too. It is a pity that the author could not provide pictures for some of the more striking incidents she records. Some of these would do: I met a cat in a bog I sat in a bog A hog is in a bog A wig is in a bog A pen is in a bog I had a red bed Ten men had a pen I had a wet hen I fed ten men in a den I should have thought that by appropriate illustrations the child might have been helped to a greater knowledge, not only of letters, but of life. But perhaps the most vivid of all these pages is page 99, which I produce verbatim: A bun is in a tun A gun is in a tun A dog is in a tun A hog is in a tun A pig is in a tun A wig is in a tun A hen is in a tun A pen is in a tun NOTE.--Let the child begin the book again, if it likes. What _is_ a tun? Until I started out to educate my daughter I did not know. But then, I am not a sinful child. For hush! it seems to be a sort of _barrel_. I have drawn rather a jolly tun myself. If we could only look back into our childish minds and really recapture the impressions of life (if any) which inhabitated us at the end of a day when we had triumphantly mastered page 99 and similar pages, and if one could set those impressions down in print, what rich romances might be born into the world! But is there no Society for the Protection of Children from This Sort of Book? [Illustration: “A pen is in a tun.”] On With the Dance