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Updated: June 12, 2025
"And I found your ball in the bushes, Bert," urged Dorothy. "They're not for little girls," Hal said, waving his hand comically, like a duke in a comic opera. "Run along, little girls, run along," he said, rolling his r's in real stage fashion, and holding the pond lilies against his heart. "But if we get them, may we have them sir knight?" asked Dorothy, keeping up the joke.
Hence what we need in the poorer districts of our large towns is Free Kindergarten Schools from which all formal teaching of the three R's is abolished, where for several hours in each day the child may be trained to use his senses in the accurate discrimination and accurate systematisation of sense knowledge; where he may have his constructive activities evoked by the expression in concrete form of what he has been led to perceive through the medium of the senses; where he may be trained to habits of order, of cleanliness, of submission to authority; and where for a time, at least, he may be accustomed to live in a purer and healthier atmosphere than he can find at home or in the street, and where for a brief space he may have that feeling of home which he cannot find at home.
The cousin, above all, the angler, with his white waistcoat, his blue tie, his full beard, and his almond eyes, especially displeased me. He rolled his r's like an actor at a country theatre. He broke his bread into little bits and nibbled them as he talked. I divined that the pleasure of showing off a large ring he wore had something to do with this fancy for playing with his bread.
It takes time, you see, to grow an idea, as to grow a colt or a boy, to its full size. President Burlingham, who in his day drew the bill that made it lawful to use the schools for neighborhood purposes other than the worship of those same three R's, went around with me one night to see what ailed the children who would not play.
Nearly every boy acquainted with the three R's reading, writing, and arithmetic imagined that he had altogether more education than ought to be wasted in raising potatoes and corn. They made haste to get into some other business. Those who stayed upon the farm envied those who went away.
This confession of faith caused a fresh outburst of hilarity, because of course everyone knew what a Bush Baptist was. 'If 'evven's goin' to be full of sich b r's as Hunter, observed Eaton, 'I think I'd rather go to the other place. 'If ever ole Misery DOES get into 'eaven, said Philpot, ''e won't stop there very long.
"Dorrsham, oh!" the lady rolled her r's, and poke in the prettiest way imaginable. "It is rather a long walk home for a young lady when the light is beginning to fail. Have you no one with you?" "No," said Esther, suddenly realising her disobedience in not having brought Guard. "I am not afraid; at least I I shall be home before it is dark." "I do not feel so sure of that."
She was guided by the friendly trail signs those big red R's and L's on fence post and telephone pole, magically telling the way from the Mississippi to the Pacific. Her father's occasional musing talk kept her from loneliness. He was a good touring companion. Motoring is not the best occasion for epigrams, satire, and the Good One You Got Off at the Lambs' Club last night.
"Horrid wretch!" she said, pausing over all the r's in the name she had called him. "It began, you know, from the very first. Of course he had been a fool. An old roue is always a fool to marry. What does he get, you know, for his money? A pretty face. He's tired of that as soon as it's his own. Is it not so, Mr. Clavering? But other people ain't tired of it, and then he becomes jealous.
His voice, though high, was very sweet a quality that made it always sound odd, almost foreign, in the midst of the neutral, colorless middle-western tones about him. He spoke with a Southern accent, dropping his r's, clipping some vowels and broadening others, but there was no Southern drawl in the clicking, telegraphic speed of his speech.
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