Children's own library . So I took her hand in mine, and I went with her oneday to the Deaf and Dumb Establishment in London,and when the gentleman come to speak to us, I says tohim: Now Ill tell you what Ill do with you, sir. I. He Saw Her Listening to Him ! Page 82. wM DOCTOR MARIGOLDS PRESCRIPTIONS. 183 am nothing but a Cheap Jack, but of late years I havelaid by for a rainy day notwithstanding. This is myonly daughter (adopted), and you cant produce a deafernor a dumber. Teach her the most that can be taughther in the shortest separation that can be named,—statethe figure for it, —and I am
Children's own library . So I took her hand in mine, and I went with her oneday to the Deaf and Dumb Establishment in London,and when the gentleman come to speak to us, I says tohim: Now Ill tell you what Ill do with you, sir. I. He Saw Her Listening to Him ! Page 82. wM DOCTOR MARIGOLDS PRESCRIPTIONS. 183 am nothing but a Cheap Jack, but of late years I havelaid by for a rainy day notwithstanding. This is myonly daughter (adopted), and you cant produce a deafernor a dumber. Teach her the most that can be taughther in the shortest separation that can be named,—statethe figure for it, —and I am game to put the money wont bate you a single farthing, sir, but Ill put downthe money here and now, and Ill thankfully throw youin a pound to take it. There! The gentleman smiled,and then, Well, well, says he, I must first knowwhat she has learned already. How do you communicatewith her ! Then I showed him, and she wrote in printedwriting many names of things and so forth; and we heldsome sprightly conversation, Sophy and me, about alittle story in a book which the gentleman showed her,and which she was able to read. This is most extraor-dinary, says the gentleman; is it possible that youhave been her only tea
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