_First Girl._ Let us lay words. Where is the box?
_Second Girl._ How do you play?
_First Girl._ I will show you. Here I give you c, e, u, h, q, and n;
now place them so as to make a word.
_Second Girl._ It is _quench_!
_First Girl._ You are quick; now let us pick out some words for
_Charles_. What shall we choose?
_Second Girl._
Let us lay thrust, thresh, branch,
ground, school, thirst, quince, quail,
and dearth.
_First Girl._
I will lay plague, and neigh, and
nought, and naught, and weight, and
glare, and freight, and heart, and
grieve, and hearth, and bathe, and
thread, and vaunt, and boast, and
vault, and tongue, and grieve, and
beard, and feast, and friend, and
fraught, and peace, and bread, and
grape, and breath, or the verb to
breathe, and thought, and grace, and
mouse, and slave, and chide, and
stake, and bought.
_Second Girl._ I shall like the play, and it will teach _Charles_ to
spell well.
_First Girl._ That is its use: we have sports of all kinds to make us
quick: we have some to teach us to count; else I could not have been
taught to do sums at three years old.
_Second Girl._ Were you?
_First Girl._ Yes; I was through the four rules by the time that most
boys learn that two and two make four.
_Second Girl._ I wish you would teach me some of your sports; that I
could teach _Charles_.
_First Girl._ Print words on a card; on the back write the parts of
speech; let it be a sport for him to try if he can find what each one
is; let him have the words, and place them so as to make sense; thus I
give you these words:
_you_, _done_, _do_, _be_, _would_, _by_, _as_.