would like you, Anna dear, to give up your painting and come and
look after me and the school now."

Anna said, "Of course I will, Papa. It's my duty. Of course I will."

Girls did that, and parents and husbands asked them to do that, in
the days when Rosalie's mother was a girl.

Rosalie's mother gave away everything, first to her father, then
to her husband, then to her children. She believed the whole of the
Bible, literally, as it is written, from the first word of Genesis
to the last word of Revelations. She taught it as literal, final
and initial truth to all her children, and one knows how wickedly
wrong it is now considered to teach children that the Bible-stories
are true. She taught them the whole of the Bible from books called
"Line Upon Line," and "The Child's Bible," and in stories of her
own making, and from the Bible itself. Regrettably, the ignorantly
imposed-upon children loved it! Till each child was eight she
taught them everything at her knee. All the nursery rhymes, and
all the Bible, and reading out of "Step by Step," and then "Reading
Without Tears," and then, in advancing series, the "Royal Readers,"
and writing, first holding their hands, and then--first in pencil
and afterwards with pens having three huge blobs to teach you how
to place your fingers properly--in copybooks graded from enormous
lines which had brick-red covers to astoundingly narrow little lines
enclosing pious and moral maxims which had severe grey covers; and
the multiplication tables and then simple arithmetic; and General
Knowledge out of "The Child's Guide to Knowledge," which asked
you "What is sago?" and required you to reply by heart, "Sago is
a dried, granulated substance prepared from the pith of several