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When Lieutenant Tibbetts had a great educational idea he usually reduced it to writing. The Residency saw little of him and heard nothing, for at meal-times he was very silent and taciturn, not to say irritable. He was like this when he elaborated his scheme for translating into the Bomongo tongue the nursery rhymes of his youth. For Bones was a restless educationalist, and if he was not acquiring knowledge he was never so happy as when he was passing along the fruits of his study. His nursery rhymes were not too successful:
"Miri-miri had a small goat With white hair When Miri-miri walked by the river The goat also walked. It went to all place behind Miri-miri" -- was the literal translation of "Mary had a little lamb," and Bones made an heroic effort to teach the children of the Isisi, the Akasava and the Ochori this legend.