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Show Just the Job for Him. He was the slowest boy on earth . and had been sacked at three places in two weeks, so his parents had apprenticed ap-prenticed him to a naturalist. But even he found him slow. It took him two hours to give the canaries can-aries their seed, three to stick a pin through a dead butterfly and four to pick a convolvulus. The only point about him- was that he was willing. "And what," he asked, having spent a whole afternoon changing the gold fishes' water, "shall I do how, sir?" The naturalist ran his fingers through his locks. "Well, Robert," he replied at length, "I think you might take the tortoise out for a run." |