WENTWORTH. Well, of course, if you _could_ get a French dictionary--

GERALD. Well, there'd be _some_ book there anyway. If it's a Bible,
read it. When you've read it, count the letters in it; have little
bets with yourself as to which man's name is mentioned most times
in it; put your money on Moses and see if you win. Anything like
that. If it's a hymn-book, count how many of the rhymes rhyme and
how many don't; try and make them _all_ rhyme. Learn 'em by heart;
I don't say that that would be particularly useful to you in the
business world afterwards, but it would be amusing to see how
quickly you could do it, how many you could keep in your head at
the same time.

WENTWORTH. This is too intellectual for me; my brain would go in no
time.

GERALD. You aren't doing it all day, of course; there are other
things. Physical training. Swedish exercises. Tell yourself that
you'll be able to push up fifty times from the ground before you
come out. Learn to walk on your hands. Practise cart-wheels, if you
like. Gad! you could come out a Hercules.

WENTWORTH. I can't help feeling that the strain of improving myself
so enormously would tell on me.

GERALD. Oh, you'd have your games and so on to keep you bright and
jolly.

WENTWORTH (sarcastically). Golf and cricket, I suppose?