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"Incompatibility," she gave out, and before the sound of her voice died away the Princess was spelling: "I-n, in, c-o-m, com, in com, p-a-t, pat, incompat, i, incompati, b-i-l, bil, incompatibil, i, incompatibili, t-y, ty, incompatibility."
And why can't we?" "B-i-r-d-s, birds, i-n, in, t-h-e-i-r, their, l-i-t-t-l-e, little, n-e-s-t-s, nests, a-g-r-e-e, agree." My feet burned in my new shoes, but most of my body was chilling as I stood beside Miss Amelia on the platform, before the whole school, and followed the point of her pencil, while, a letter at a time, I spelled aloud my first sentence.
Claude's face suddenly set in a stony vacancy, and with his eyes staring straight before him he responded: "I-n, in-, e, inerad-, r-a-d, rad-, inerad-, ineraddy-, ineradica-, c-a, ca, ineradica-, ineradicabili-, b-i-elly-billy, ineradicabili-, ineradicabili-, t-y, ty, ineradicability." "Right! Claude, my boy! my always good scholar, right!"
Rotherham 'Irish, is it not, hey! Atwood?" "I believe it is no move than 'I-n, stretched over much more paper than is necessary." "You are right enough, vicar; and the next word is 'the, though it looks like a chevaux de frise what follows? It looks like 'man-of-war. Atwood?"
And at the potent voice of Maximian Roussel the offender was pushed silently into the seat he had risen from, and Bonaventure gave the word again. "In-com-pre-hen-si-ca-bil-i-ty!" And Sidonie, blushing like fire, returned to the task: "I-n, een" She bit her lip and trembled. "Right! Right! Tremble not, my Sidonie! fear naught! yo' loving school-teacher is at thy side!"
Thus each one has some other person's slip to read. The one who composed the best sentences deserves a prize. Examples City, New York. Sentence N-ow, E-very, W-all St., Y-ankee, O-wns, R-eal, K-ingdoms. City, Chicago. Sentence Conflagration, H-igh, I-n, C-rowded, A-reas, G-rew, O-n. This is a catch game for those who have never played it.
But an instant later Sidonie had chosen between the two horns of her agonizing dilemma, and began: "I-n, een, c-o-m, cawm, eencawm, eencawmpre, p-r-e, pre, eencawmpre, eencawmprehen, prehen, haich-e-n, hen, hen, eencawmprehensi, s-i, si, eencawmprehensi-, b-i-l" "Ah! Sidonie! Stop! Arretez! Si-do-nie-e-e-e! Oh! listen écoutez Sidonie, my dear!"
"Let's hear you say it, then," shouted the rest of the boys. "Takes you to make long words," said Charlie. "I-i-i-i-i-i-i" began Morris, embarrassed by the evident want of confidence in his ability. "Go it!" said Charlie. "Fire away!" said Joe. "In-co-co-co-co-co" proceeded Morris. "Spell it!" suggested Harry. "I-n, in, c-o-m-e, come," spelled Morris with great fluency, and then stopped short.
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