ABSTRACT

The child, whose nursery life was described earlier in the book, is now five years three months, and attends the garrison school at Karachi, India. The instruction he receives fills him with delight, and when he is inoculated for typhoid he has to have his dose on Wednesday so that he shall be indisposed on Thursday, which is a whole holiday. Among the other things that are taught him is the geography of the Missouri River, and he returns to tiffin and confounds his father who is so uninstnicted as not to know the length of that imposing stream.