Why Not Learn Something New?

Not much has happened in this part. Nothing big anyway.

Antonia, Jimmy, and Yulka make a sort of "nest" for them selves in the long grass.

For most of the time that there there by the "cliff" under the open sky Antonia is trying to learn new words from Jimmy. Antonia tries to give Jimmy a ring to wear. He wont take it. I dont think he wants to give her the wrong idea and all. After a little bit of arguing over the ring, they hear a voice calling for them Mr. Shimerda. As Jimmy, Otto, and his grandmother are leaving Mr. Shimerda hands them a book with the English alphabet and the Bohemian alphabet. He asks Jimmy to teach Antonia English.

I think it's cute that Jimmy is going to teach her. They just met and he is going to do this for her? That's the making of a very good friend. Let's see where this leads to.

"...He looked at her enrreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which i shall never forget,' Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my An-tonia!' "