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Nicholas Swab first bought a spelling-book, and then confessed that he should find it of no use unless Mr Vellum would explain to him the meaning of the black marks on the pages. "Then you do not know your letters, my poor boy?" said the old man in a tone of commiseration. "No, sir, I don't; but I soon will, if you'll tell them to me," answered Nicholas in a confident tone.
Inflict soap and a spelling-book on every Indian that ravages the Plains, and let them die!" The Secretary of War asked me if I was a member of the Cabinet, and I said I was. He inquired what position I held, and I said I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology. I was then ordered under arrest for contempt of court, and restrained of my liberty for the best part of the day.
If they are not equal to those of another individual, it is because, though "fragile," my education has taught me to have some consideration for the truth. I am done. I was born in Missouri. My dislike for the Northern scum was inherent. This was shown, at an early age, in the extreme distaste I exhibited for Webster's spelling-book, the work of a well-known Eastern Abolitionist.
"Why I do," said 'Lena, and her uncle, stopping for a moment his whittling, replied rather scornfully, "You! I should like to know what you ever studied besides the spelling-book!"
"Does he gain much?" "Gain much? Why, he has never a penny in his pocket. Only think, in order to buy a spelling-book so that I could go to school he was obliged to sell the only coat he had to wear a coat that, between patches and darns, was not fit to be seen." "Poor devil! I feel almost sorry for him! Here are five gold pieces. Go at once and take them to him with my compliments."
Of the same character is the dim and quiet dame school which Sir Alfred Harmsworth and Mr. Pearson keep. All their sentiments are spelling-book sentiments that is to say, they are sentiments with which the pupil is already respectfully familiar. All their wildest posters are leaves torn from a copy-book.
Jim thought if he had made a spelling-book, he would have spelled the word that way. Jim would have been a master hand at phonetics. The little girl crossed two of her fingers. That was a sign of truce in the game. "No play till we come back," said Jim. The little girl nodded and ran for her mitts of strong muslin with the thumb and finger ends out. The briars were so apt to tear your hands.
He had given out all the hard words in the book. He again pulled the top of his head forward. Then he wiped his spectacles and put them on. Then out of the depths of his pocket he fished up a list of words just coming into use in those days words not in the spelling-book. He regarded the paper attentively with his blue right eye.
So of William Hutton, whose name is mentioned in another place. Encouraged by a couplet which he read in Dyce's Spelling-book "Despair of nothing that you would attain, Unwearied diligence your end will gain," he sought to master everything that he undertook. One day he borrowed a dulcimer, and made one by it.
All natural histories teem with anecdotes illustrative of their excellent qualities; and one old spelling-book in particular recounts a touching instance of an old lion, of high moral dignity and stern principle, who felt it his imperative duty to devour a young man who had contracted a habit of swearing, as a striking example to the rising generation.
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