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has learnt to present things in a way that the 

 Eskimo mind can grasp. After a few more 

 exercises with the table-book I saw the little 

 eyes becoming restless ; thoughts were be- 

 ginning to wander ; and Benjamin called for 

 a change. Shock-headed little Moses fetched 

 the books out of the cupboard, and handed 

 them round, and the chubby faces brightened 

 again. 



Benjamin announced a psalm, and the little 

 fingers grew busy as they turned the pages ; 

 and then I saw first one boy and then another 

 stand up to spell through a verse. It was 

 really wonderful to watch the eager way in 

 which they pursued the alarming strings of 

 letters that stretched from margin to margin, 

 and gathered them into syllables under 

 Benjamin's guidance, and made out the proper 

 meaning. When the psalm was finished Moses 

 collected the books ; then the children sang 

 a hymn and ran out to romp in the snow. 



