HOW HE CAME TO KNOW
"And you can speak well, ma'am," said the Boy, not forgetting his manners.
"You know one language, but I know many languages," said the Crow, "for I know what People say, and I know what all the Birds say."
The old Crow sat there looking so wise and so friendly that the Boy began to talk to her at his ease. And after a while the Boy said "Ma'am, do you think I could ever learn what the Birds say?"
"You would, if you had me to teach you," said the Crow.
"And will you teach me, ma'am?" said the Boy.
"I will," said the Crow.
Then every day after that the Crow would sit upon the Standing Stone and the Boy would stand beside it. When the Crow had eaten the boiled potato that the Boy always brought she would tell him about the languages of the different Birds. The two were teaching and learning from day to day, and indeed you might say that the Boy went to school to the Crow. He learnt the language
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