Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 11099-h.htm or 11099-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/0/9/11099/11099-h/11099-h.htm) or (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/0/9/11099/11099-h.zip) MORE SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE; OR, ANOTHER PEEP AT CHARLES. BEING, AN ACCOUNT OF CHARLES'S PROGRESS IN LEARNING. ABOUT BLACK SLAVES; A CONVERSATION ON HISTORY; AND MISSIONARIES. BY MISS JULIA CORNER. EMBELLISHED WITH SEVEN ELEGANT COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. LONDON: [Illustration: THE INCA'S SURPRISE AT SEEING A WATCH.] MORE SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE; OR, ANOTHER PEEP AT CHARLES. CHAP. I. CHARLES'S PROGRESS IN LEARNING. You have heard a great deal about Charles in the Seeds of Useful Knowledge; perhaps you would like to hear a little more about him; for, as he was never tired of learning good things, I might fill many books, if I were to speak of every thing that his papa and mamma taught him. But I dare say all the boys and girls who read this, have kind parents or friends who teach them, as well as Charles's papa and mamma taught him; so I will only mention such things as they may not perhaps yet have heard. But first of all, I must tell you what Charles has been doing, since you heard of him last. He was now a year older than he was then, and he was also wiser, for he could write pretty well, and read without spelling the long words; he knew the multiplication table, and the pence table too; and could do sums in multiplication without a mistake, when he took pains; but sometimes, when he was careless, or in a hurry, the sums were wrong: however, I am happy to say that did not happen very often. Besides all these things, Charles learned grammar, and geography, and could decline many Latin nouns; which was very well for a little boy not quite seven years old. But of all his lessons he liked geography best, he liked to find out places in the maps, and to know whereabouts the different countries were that he heard people talk of; and then his papa was often kind to tell him amusing stories about the inhabitants of those countries, and he also told him what things are brought from them: for instance, Charles knew that tea grows in China, which is in Asia; and sugar in the West-Indies; that the rose-wood that his mamma's chairs and card tables were made of, grew in a country called Brazil in South America; and that the raisins in the plum-pudding on Christmas day, were dried grapes, and came from Spain. "Papa," said Charles one night, when he was, as usual, telling his papa what he had done in the course of the day,--"I wish I might learn more geography, instead of any grammar; I like it so much better: I like geography very much, but I do not like grammar at all." "What is your objection to grammar, Charles?" said his papa. "Oh, why--there is nothing amusing in it."