“Naaman had something the matter with him, and his master sent a letter to the King of Israel, and the king was very unhappy and did not know what to do because he thought that he wanted to come and fight against him, and he rent his clothes. And he said, ‘I can’t cure him,’ so he sent him to Elisha, and he told him to take a lot of presents and a lot of things with him. And when Naaman came to Elisha’s door, Elisha sent Gehazi to tell him to dip himself seven times in the waters of Jordan, and he said to himself, ‘I surely thought he would have come out, and I thought a lot of people would come out and make a fuss’; and he went back in a rage. And his servant said to him, ‘Why didn’t you go?’ And he said, ‘My rivers are much the best.’ So his servants said, ‘If he had asked you to do some great thing, wouldst thou have done it?’ So he went and dipped himself seven times in the water, and when he came out he was quite all right again. And when he was coming home they saw Gehazi coming, so Naaman told them to stop the horses, and so they stopped, and Gehazi said, ‘There are some people come to see me, please give me some money and some cloaks,’ and they were very heavy, so Naaman sent some of his men to carry them, and when he came near the house he said to his servants, ‘You can go now.’ Elisha said, ‘Because you have done this you shall have the leprosy that Naaman had.’” _Q._ Tell a fairy story. B. (aged 6¾):— “When Ulysses was coming back from Troy he passed the Sirens. He could hear them, but he couldn’t get to them, because he was bound. He wanted to get to them so as he could listen to them a long time, because a lot of people had come and listened to them, and they found it so beautiful that they wanted to stay there, and they stayed till they died. His companions couldn’t hear them because they stopped up their ears with wax and cotton-wool. And this was the song they sang:— ‘Hither, come hither and hearken awhile, Odysseus far-famed king, No sailor has ever passed this way But has paused to hear us sing. Our song is sweeter than honey, And he that hears it knows What he never learnt from another, And his joy before he goes. We know what the heroes bore at Troy In the ten long years of strife, We know what happened in all the world, And the secret things of life.’ And then they rowed on till at last the song faded away, and they rowed on and on for a long time, and then when they could not hear them nor see them, the wax was taken out of their ears, and then they unbound Ulysses.” _Q._ What have you noticed (yourself) about a spider? C. (aged 7¾):—