Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.

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I think, replied the young advocate, unwilling to give up a point in which his feelings were interested, that even you would believe in Walter Maynard's success in life, if you knew him. What has brought the world to its present state, but individual talent?

Note, too, reports that students' listening practices were complexly interwoven with their other learning practices – listening was often accompanied by note-taking, for example, as if listening alone is not sufficiently 'learny'.