“ Oh, yes,” said Philip, “it’s very easy. You’ve only to look well at things, and draw them over and over again. What you do wrong once, you can alter the next time.”
“ But haven’t you been taught any thing?” said Tom, beginning to have a puzzled suspicion that Philip’s crooked back might be the source of remarkable faculties. “I thought you’d been to school a long while.”
“ Yes,” said Philip, smiling; “I’ve been taught Latin and Greek and mathematics, and writing and such things.”
“ Oh, but I say, you don’t like Latin, though, do you?” said Tom, lowering his voice confidentially.
“ Pretty well; I don’t care much about it,” said Philip.
“ Ah, but perhaps you haven’t got into the Propria quæ maribus ,” said Tom, nodding his head sideways, as much as to say, “that wa
