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Look out, snail!" she called; "you'll bump into the house in a minute if you are not careful!" The boy came slowly up the stairs still spelling out the paragraph that interested him. "Alec," he said, pausing in the doorway, "what's a green goods man? This says that a gang of 'em were arrested in New York. The detectives traced them by a letter one of them left here in Ridgeville at the hotel.
I can tell you no more about where to find him. So no more at present from your very humble servant, JACOB POOLE." "Mr Frank has written to me not to post his letter for a month, but I don't think it is right to keep it from you, so I send it at once." Such was Jacob's letter, when cleared of mistakes in spelling and expression. Frank's letter to his mother was in these words:
"Don't you see I'm spelling it out, letter by letter? O, r, e, s, c, u, e, u, s, c, o, m, e, w, e, l, l, a, r, m, e, d Yes. yes, I twig it." And the captain jotted it down in his note-book for some seconds, silently. "Run up the flag there," he shouted, a moment later, rushing hastily forward. "Stop her at once, Walker. Easy, easy. Get ready the gig.
Accordingly, he suggested to the manager of the house that the front be brightened up at night by electrical signs, one row of lights spelling his name "Burton" and another row of lights spelling the name "Holmes." The manager told him it was too much of an innovation for him to authorize and referred him to the owner of the theatre. Mr.
Nor can it be denied that their relation to old-fashioned or to new-fashioned spelling is not always a harmonious one.
The irregularities of the language, without authoritative spelling or pronunciation, and the best dictionary of which is Brazilian, have a bad effect upon the literature of the country.
"Yes," said the instructor, "that is right; that is one kind of profit, but this is another and a little different," and he proceeded to explain the word, and the difference of the spelling. This child had, without doubt, heard of some transaction of the kind which he described, and had observed that the word profit was applied to it.
They bring treasures within easy reach. They open up the way into all you need. The key to God is in one little word. It has two spellings, sometimes with four letters, sometimes with five, and both correct spellings. The four-lettered spelling is for all the world.
"This was old wisdom when Noah sailed the seas," she said, and drew a little apart from him. Villon followed her. "Well, let to-morrow tell to-morrow's story. To-night I feel like a happy child in a world of make-believe. To-night we are immortal, you and I, wandering forever in this green garden under those indifferent stars, breathing this rose-scented air, spelling the secret of the world."
Some few others, more unfortunate than the rest, among whom poor Screwy was the most conspicuous, were treated with a more absolute rigour, and were sent upon the world portionless. Screwy had been constant in his devotion to pork chops, and had persisted in spelling blue without the final 'e. He was therefore, declared unworthy of any further public confidence whatever.