different palms." "Where are these palms found?" "These palms are
found in the East Indies."

Likewise history out of Mrs. Markham and "Little Arthur"; also,
at a ridiculously early age, how to tell the time and how to know
the coinage of the realm and its values; also, whether girl or boy,
the making of kettle-holders by threading brightly coloured wools
through little squares of canvas; also very many pieces of poetry:
"Oft had I heard of Lucy Grey," and "It was the Schooner Hesperus"
and hymns--also learnt by heart and sung while Rosalie's mother
played the piano--"We are but little children weak," and "Gentle
Jesus, meek and mild."

All these things were taught at her knee to each child in turn by
Rosalie's mother, and each was taught out of the self-same books,
miraculously preserved by Rosalie's mother; the backs of most of
them carefully stitched and re-stitched, and marked all through
by the dates of each child's daily lesson, written in pencil by
Rosalie's mother. The dates ranged from 1869 when Harold was being
taught and when the books were fresh and clean, and Rosalie's
mother fresh and ardent with her first-born, to 1884, when Rosalie
was being taught, and the books very old and thumbed and most
terribly crowded with pencil marks, and Rosalie's mother no longer
fresh but rather worn, but teaching as fondly and earnestly as
ever, because it was her duty. Literally at the knee of Rosalie's
mother these things were taught. On her knee with one of her arms
about you for the Bible teaching; and standing at her knee, hands
behind you, for the teaching of most of the rest. Yes, that was
the early education, and the manner of the education, of Rosalie
and of her brothers and sisters, and one perceives with indignation