Old-time schools and school-books . red A Typical Hornbook. with a translucent sheet of horn, To save from fingers wet the letters fair. Alight strip of metal, usually brass, was fastened withseveral short nails or tacks around the edges of the «fAabcdcfghJjklmnop<rf*t u v w xy z& aeioiABCDEFGHITKLMNOPC|RSTUVW#Y2 .a e i o u a e i o u jabebibobub babebtbolac ec ic oc uc ca ce ci co ccadediJodud dadedidodiLin the Karo«oftic Fathei and of th«1|Son,and of the Hoi/ Ohoft. Asm., UR art u be thylJame; thy Kingdom come,thy |7ill be done on Ear th,ai i t is in!heaven. Gi
Old-time schools and school-books . red A Typical Hornbook. with a translucent sheet of horn, To save from fingers wet the letters fair. Alight strip of metal, usually brass, was fastened withseveral short nails or tacks around the edges of the «fAabcdcfghJjklmnop<rf*t u v w xy z& aeioiABCDEFGHITKLMNOPC|RSTUVW#Y2 .a e i o u a e i o u jabebibobub babebtbolac ec ic oc uc ca ce ci co ccadediJodud dadedidodiLin the Karo«oftic Fathei and of th«1|Son,and of the Hoi/ Ohoft. Asm., UR art u be thylJame; thy Kingdom come,thy |7ill be done on Ear th,ai i t is in!heaven. Give us this Day our|lilyBread; and forgive u«ourtVefpaflca, as wc forgive themjthat trefpaf* againft us: And]lead us not intoTeinptRt*on,but jsliver ui from Evil, Ami Beginnings 27 horn to keep it in place. The board had a handleat one end, and occasionally this handle was piercedwith a hole so that a string could be attached andthe toddling owner of the hornbook could carry itsuspended from his neck. At the top of the paper. Revolving of the original, five inches. was printed the alphabet, capitals, and small letters;and then in orderly array the vowels, then doublelines of ab, eb, ibs, and the benediction, In thename of the Father, and of the Son, and of the HolyGhoft. Amen. The remaining space was devotedto the Lords Prayer, unless, as was sometimes 28 Old-time Schools and School-books the case, this was supplemented at the bottom bythe Roman numerals. A curious successor to the hornbook was pro-duced by a Hartford publisher in 1820. It wascalled The Revolving Alphabet or Childs In-structive Toy, and consisted of two wooden disksabout five inches in diameter with a circular sheet ofpaper between them. On one side of the paper wasprinted the alphabet; on the other side a series oflittle syllables. By turning a thumb-piece the paperinside the disks could be made to revolve, and anaperture near the edge of one of the disks allowedyou to see the printing, a
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