United States or Niger ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"But you want to learn it, before you can go on to what does mean something." "I don't guess I do," said Hephzibah. "Don't you want to learn to read?" "Yes, but that ain't reading'." "But you cannot learn to read without it," said Daisy. Under this urging, Hephzibah did consent to go down the column of two-letter syllables.
But for five years my only wish has been to learn to read, and I am so glad to be able to." I wanted to teach her to spell. "I almost think I can a little." And she was already so far that without spelling first she read a whole page of two-letter spellings, almost without a mistake. She certainly very often said: "Da ad," or read fo for of, but her progress was amazing.
Moreover, it was subtly suggestive. "Ever meet your father's er the present Mrs. Blount, Evan?" he asked. "No." Blount may have been Western-born, but the chilling discouragement he could crowd into the two-letter negation spoke eloquently of his Eastern training. Gantry was rebuffed but not disheartened. "She is a mighty fine woman," he ventured. "So I have been given to understand."
"But you cannot learn to read without it," said Daisy. Under this urging, Hephzibah did consent to go down the column of two-letter syllables. "Ain't you going with me after them nuts?" she said as soon as the bottom of the page was reached. "I'll shew you a rabbit's nest. La! it's so pretty!" "I hope you will not take the nuts, Hephzibah, without Mr. Lamb's leave."
Word Of The Day