taken.

Then he catechised the children. Little Ben could say the Lord's
Prayer, the Belief, and some of the shorter Commandments, and the
doctor patted his little round white cap, and gave him two Turkey
figs as a reward.

Jerusha, when she got over her desperate fright enough to speak above
a whisper, was quite perfect from her name down to "charity with all
men," but Emlyn stumbled horribly over even the first answers, and
utterly broke down in the Fourth Commandment; but she smiled up in
the doctor's face in her pretty way, and blushed as she said "The
chaplain at Blythedale had taught us so far, your reverence."

"And have you learnt no further?"

"If you were here to teach me, sir, I would soon learn it," said the
little witch, but she did not come over him as she did with most
people.

"You have as good an instructor as I for your needs, in this discreet
maiden," said Dr. Eales, and as something of a pout descended on the
sparkling little face, "when you know all the answers, perchance
Steadfast here may bring you to my lodgings and I will hear you."

"I could learn them myself if I had the book," said Emlyn.

The fact being that the Catechism was taught by Patience from memory
in those winter evenings when all went to bed to save candle light,
but that when Steadfast retired to the cow-house, Emlyn either