15. The baby, however, learnt words and names much faster than Guido; for although Guido knew as much as any dog knows, yet dogs are different creatures from children, and cannot learn so much nor so fast as children can, because it has not pleased God to give them the same powers. 16. Now, perhaps you may wish to know who this interesting family were of whom I have been speaking; and you will probably be surprised to learn, that all I have told you about this little baby is true of every little baby, and that the manner that every infant is taught to speak is the same. 17. It is the same manner as that in which the little Spanish girl, mentioned in the seventh lesson, was taught to speak the English language. LESSON X. _Words._--ORIGINAL. 1. I told you, in the last lesson, how an infant child first learned to speak, when it was taught by its father and mother, and brother and sisters. 2. I intend to show you, in this lesson, how the little child learned the meaning of a great many words himself, without the assistance of any one else. 3. He was very fond of Guido, the dog, and watched everything he did, especially when his brother George was playing with him. 4. When George called Guido, and said to the dog, "_Come here_, Guido," the little boy could not help noticing that Guido _went to_ George. 5. When George's father or mother called George, and said, "Come here, George," the little child saw that George _went to_ his father, or his mother. 6. Now, nobody told the little child what George, or his father, or his mother, meant by the word _come_; but he always saw, that when any one said to another, "_Come_," that the one who was spoken to always _moved towards_ the person who called him, and in this way the little child found out what his father or his mother meant by the word _come_. 7. It was in this way, my young friend who are reading this lesson, that you, yourself, learned the meaning of most of the words that you know. 8. When you were a little child, like the infant of whom I have been speaking, you knew no more about words, or about speaking, than he did. 9. But, by hearing others speak and use words, you learned to use them yourself; and there is no word ever used, either in books or anywhere else, that you cannot find out its meaning, provided that you hear it used frequently, and by different persons. 10. I will now give you an example, to show you what I mean. I will give you a word that you probably never heard of before; and although I shall not tell you what the word means, I think you will find it out yourself, before you have read many more lines of this lesson. 11. The word _hippoi_ is the word that I shall choose, because I know that you do not know the meaning of it; but I wish you to read the following sentences in which the word is used, and I think that you will find out what _hippoi_ means, before you have read them all.