Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-13 | Page 2 | Exact Copyists

Kzact C opylits. ' The Chinese aro essentially iruitaLiv. M they once learn to do a piece of work, they aro sure to perform it again in exactly ex-actly the eatue manner, even if that wanner could be. vastly improved. A teacher in a Chinese Sunday school owns to being equally am used and provoked at the patient exactitude with which her grown up "boys" follow her instructions. One day. when a faithful but backward back-ward pupil had some difficulty in reading read-ing the (sentence, "He laughed aloud," he said, somewhat impatiently, pointing point-ing to the Torb, "Now listen to me laughed." ' Once more the docile scholar attempted the diitlcult task of pronunciation, and this time he read, with ill concealed pride in his success, "He now listen tc tue laughed aloud." Ou another occasion tho same pupil came to a word which he could not pro nounce, and as the teacher wus busy at the moment, she said: "Spell it!" Ho was so 6low in doing; it, however, that she looked over his shoulder, and laid, encouragingly, "Man." That was enough for the imitative Chinaman, and he slowly read aloud the whole phrase, "A great and spell it man." Youth's Companion.