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At the age of four he had begun to read and write, refusing to be taught in the orthodox way this is so accurately characteristic by syllabic spelling and copy-book pothooks.
Old Charlie Wayne came to gazin' at stars, and twice a week he used to go and paddle round in Whitechapel, teachin' pothooks " "Glennie," said Sir James, "what 's become of Smollett, your old keeper?" "Obliged to get rid of him." Shelton tried again to close his ears, but again he listened. "Getting a bit too old; lost me a lot of eggs last season."
At the end of the kitchen was invariably a large fire-place, with its wide, gaping mouth, an iron crane, with a row of pothooks of various lengths, from which to suspend the pots over the fire, and on the hearth a strong pair of andirons, flanked by a substantial pair of tongs and a shovel.
The mysteries of "pothooks and hangers" and ABC weighed heavily on the nobleman's mind, which must have sunk under the burden of scholarship and penmanship, but for the other "ship" the horsemanship which was Andy's daily self- established reward for his perseverance in his lessons.
Then, picking up a pencil and idly scrawling pothooks on the big clean sheet of blotting-paper that covered his reference-book table, beside which the men were sitting, he asked: "Well, what's the trouble all about? What are the facts? I must have those, in full, before I can guarantee to do anything toward changing my daughter's opinion.
He can put them through a granitic exercise of current hand; he can teach them all how to curl hair thoroughly into croche-coeurs, as you teach a bench of school-boys how to shape pothooks; he can teach them all how to draw long eyes and straight noses, and how to copy accurately certain well-defined lines.
And it wasn't Washington, and we didn't live lives of ease; no banker ever toiled from dawn until all hours of the night, Sunday included! I made pothooks and translated them. I put figures down and added them up. For the road crew I checked in equipment and for the cook I chucked out rotten beef.
You want to tell this to your father who is in the city. What do you do? You put a lot of dots and dashes upon a piece of paper you add a few more dots and dashes upon an envelope and you carry your epistle to the mailbox together with a two-cent stamp. What have you really been doing? You have changed a number of spoken words into a number of pothooks and scrawls.
Nancy took up stenography with gentle Miss Meader, too. The latter acted as the Madame's secretary, so she had practical use for shorthand. She and Nancy corresponded daily in the "pothooks," as Jennie Bruce called the stenographic signs. Nevertheless, Nancy managed to cram into her waking hours an immense amount of fun as well as lessons.
My sister prepared a neat little writing-book for me, and told me not to make a mark in it except when she was near to tell me what to do. In my self-sufficient impatience to get out of "pothooks and trammels" into real letters and words I disobeyed her injunction, and disfigured the pages with numerous tell-tale blots.
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