Moritz.
I have gone through Meyer's Little Encyclopedia from A to Z. Words—nothing but words and words! [Pg 37] Not a single plain explanation. Oh, this feeling of shame!——What good to me is an encyclopedia that won't answer me concerning the most important question in life?
Melchior.
Did you ever see two dogs running together about the streets?
Moritz.
No!——Don't tell me anything to-day, Melchior. I have Central America and Louis the Fifteenth before me. And then the sixty verses of Homer, the seven equations and the Latin composition.——I would fail in all of them again to-morrow. To drudge successfully I must be as stupid as an ox.
Melchior.
Come with me to my room. In three-quarters of an hour I will have the Homer, the equations and two compositions. I will put one or two harmless errors in yours, and the thing is done. Mamma will make lemonade for us again, and we can chat comfortably about propagation.
Moritz.
I can't——I can't chat comfortably about propagation! If you want to do me a favor, give me your information in writing. Write me out what you know. Write it as briefly and clearly as possible, and put it between my books to-morrow during recess. I will [Pg 38] carry it home without knowing that I have it. I will find it unexpectedly. I cannot but help going over it with tired eyes——in ca
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