Cousin Elizabeth passed around a great bowl, which seemed to be full of
leaves of crisp, green lettuce.
They were, however, made of tissue paper, and each leaf had attached to it
a strip of writing paper on which was written a quotation.
These were from well-known poems or historic speeches, or even from Mother
Goose's Melodies and other juvenile classics.
Each child drew out three leaves, and endeavored to remember or guess the
source of the quotations written thereon.
Then the roll was called, and all who could give their three answers
correctly were marked one hundred.
After this, the unguessed ones were read aloud, and whoever could answer
them received ten more on his or her score for each perfect answer.
To the child attaining the highest score, a prize of a Dictionary of
Quotations was to be awarded.
Patty's three questions were easy enough. One was "His cause is marching
on."
Another was "Twinkle, twinkle little bat," and the third was "Don't give up
the ship."
She could place all three, but when the more difficult ones were announced,
she found that she knew very little about general literature.
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