154 ON THE EDUCATION OF 
This figure represents a slip of pasteboard, which has two 
narrow slips stitched to it, the ‘one along its superior, and the 
other along its inferior margin, so as to admit the letters to be 
introduced under their edges, and held in their places. The 
hole at the beginning of the word serves for fastening a loop 
by which it may be suspended ; it also serves as a mark for 
the beginning of the word, and thus directs the pupil in the me- 
thod of holding it correctly. A page of pasteboard, consisting 
of a succession of lines formed in this manner, will be a con- 
venient surface for containing tangible sentences, instead of 
the surface of wax formerly mentioned *. The letters are here 
placed at a considerable distance, which will be proper in the 
first instance, that their forms may be separately traced. It 
will afterwards be easy to cut off the superfluous paper from 
each, to bring them nearer together, and thus save space +. 
It is one great advantage of the preceding plan that it may 
be executed at very little expence. If it succeeds in his pre- 
sent situation, the expence will be a mere trifle. If not, a si- 
tuation in the country will still be the best adapted to him. 
Any intelligent person possessed of sufficient leisure, (a coun- 
try clergyman for example,) might, by having him for a cer- 
tain time an inmate of his house, execute the whole with 
little difficulty. All the expence would consist in a suitable 
board for twelve, or perhaps only for six months. For pro- 
viding this, there certainly will be no necessity for having re- 
course to any steps which the manners and feelings of our 
country 
* Page 145. 
++ This plan is evidently adapted to the use of the blind in general ; and experi- 
ments may be made with great facility on that class of persons, whose claims 
on the attentions of society are fully recognised, though they are highly pri- 
vileged when compared with the subject of these observations. Such experi- 
ments, it is to be hoped, will be speedily attempted, if they have not hitherto 
been made. 
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