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Updated: July 12, 2025
A bare-footed old lady sat on the step of the Victoria Hotel, sucking a black dhudeen, sending out smoke like a factory chimney, the picture of innocent enjoyment. The streets were full of pigs from the rural parts, and great was the bargaining and chaffering in Irish, a language which seemed to be composed of rolling r's and booming gutturals.
He hated to go to school, but he loved to play school; and when Johnny Robertson and he were not conducting a pompous, public funeral a certain oblong hat-brush, with a rosewood back, studded with brass tacks, serving as a coffin, in which lay the body of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, or the Duke of Wellington, all of whom died when Johnny and The Boy were about eight years old they were teaching each other the three immortal and exceedingly trying "R's" reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic in a play-school.
"We, who know Jane, know that it could never be thus. But wait, only wait. We shall, no doubt, prove this Mrs. Weatherbee to be the g-r-rand villain." Adrienne's roll of r's, coupled with her surmise as to the disagreeable matron's villainy, provoked instant mirth.
Speech in any vernacular and Wee Willie Winkie had a colloquial acquaintance with three was easy to the boy who could not yet manage his "r's" and "th's" aright. Another man joined the conference, crying, "O foolish men! What this babe says is true. He is the heart's heart of those white troops.
Men eat meat, wolves eat carrion. Some men are wolf-men Hand me the dictionary, Miss Humfray. Two r's in carrion. I thought so. Thank you." She replaced "Aphorisms." "My dear, I will do what I can for you," she told Mary. "I do believe you. Go into the interview room. I hear a step." That step was George's.
They stopped before a tall cadaverous house and started climbing a rickety wooden stairway. "Talk about inside dope.... I got this from a man who's actually in the room when the Peace Conference meets." Andrews heard Aubrey's voice with a Chicago burr in the r's behind him in the stairs. "Fine, let's hear it," said Henslowe.
The "three R's" are necessary tools, but they are only tools, and must be utilized in putting the child into possession of the best and most fruitful culture of the race. And, practically, they must put him into command of such phases of culture as touch his own life and experience and make him more efficient.
Would she never get that affected roll out of her r's? He touched the dress she had taken off, and asked: "What have you been doing?" Annette looked at him, reflected in her glass. Her just-brightened lips smiled, rather full, rather ironical. "Enjoying myself," she said. "Oh!" answered Soames glumly. "Ribbandry, I suppose."
How many towns have librarians who work without pay, and furnish all their materials besides?" Bert suddenly mounted the seat of the donkey-cart. "What's the matter with the Boat Club?" he inquired hoarsely. "We're all right," modestly replied the Boat Club, boys and girls together. "What's the matter with the Three R's?" "They're all right." "What's the matter with the library?"
It's more than a month since we've seen you in these parts." "Do you think it's as long as that, friend?" said the young man, affecting to drop his r's after the fashion of the day. "Yes, on my honor, that's so! I've been with friends, the Trefforts and the Hautecourts. You know those gentlemen by name, don't you?" "By name, and in person." "We hunted to hounds.
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