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Two evenings later, Ken confronted his sister at the foot of the stairs as she came down from seeing Kirk to bed. "Where," said Ken, "is your Braille slate?" "What," said Felicia, "do you want with a Braille slate, if I may ask?" "You mayn't," said Ken, conclusively. "But it makes a difference," Phil argued. "If you want to write Braille with it, which seems unlikely, I'll consider.
Although I find them difficult to translate, yet I think they are the loveliest pieces of Latin poetry I have read or shall ever read. In French we have finished "Colomba," and I am reading "Horace" by Corneille and La Fontaine's fables, both of which are in braille.
They would not allow Teacher to read any of the papers to me; so the papers were copied for me in braille. This arrangement worked very well in the languages, but not nearly so well in the Mathematics. Consequently, I did not do so well as I should have done, if Teacher had been allowed to read the Algebra and Geometry to me. But you must not think I blame any one.
"I saw them on a fruit stand for thirty cents, and couldn't resist." "Never mind; I'll make it up to you." Later, he asked for braille books, turning his sightless face toward her as he studied, trying to concentrate through the pain in his lung. "If only you wouldn't insist upon the books awhile yet, dear. The doctor says it's too soon."
A book of five or six short stories and poems that Kirk had loved best to hear his sister read all written out in Braille for him in many of Felicia's spare hours. Now he could read them himself, when Phil had no time to give him. Breakfast was quite neglected; the cereal grew cold.
Miss Keller reads by means of embossed print or the various kinds of braille. The ordinary embossed book is made with roman letters, both small letters and capitals. These letters are of simple, square, angular design. The small letters are about three-sixteenths of an inch high, and are raised from the page the thickness of the thumbnail.
While the Captain was questioning me, I heard a rapid, clicking sound following each of my answers. The noise fascinated me, and after a brief time I made bold to ask him what it was. The answer fairly staggered me. "It's a Braille machine," he replied. "I am writing down your answers."
However, the braille worked well enough in the languages; but when it came to Geometry and Algebra, it was different. I was sorely perplexed, and felt quite discouraged, and wasted much precious time, especially in Algebra.
TO MR. JOHN HITZ 138 Brattle St., Cambridge, Nov. 11, 1899. ...As to the braille question, I cannot tell how deeply it distresses me to hear that my statement with regard to the examinations has been doubted. Ignorance seems to be at the bottom of all these contradictions. Why, you yourself seem to think that I taught you American braille, when you do not know a single letter in the system!
Helen will give baby pretty letter," and with that she ran upstairs and brought down a neatly folded sheet of braille, on which she had written some words, and gave it to Mildred, saying, "Baby can eat all words." September 18, 1887. I do not wonder you were surprised to hear that I was going to write something for the report.
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