Tom Jones was a little fellow, and not so quick to learn as some boys;
but nobody in the class could beat him in his lessons. He rarely missed
in geography, never in spelling, and his arithmetic was always correctly
done; as for his reading, no boy improved like him. The boys were fairly
angry sometimes, he outdid them so.
"Why, Tom, where do you learn your lessons? You don't study in school
more than the other boys."
"I rise early in the morning and study two hours before breakfast,"
answered Tom.