WOODMYTH & FABLE 



THE CONVERTED SOAP- 

 BOILER 



CERTAIN good man loved 

 things old because they were 

 quaint. He said he would 

 gladly give up locomotives 

 and printing-presses to have '*the" spelled 

 "ye," as of old. It gave him a spasm of 

 joy to see a building called a "bvilding," 

 and he was filled with gloats whenever he 

 could get a newspaper to spell "gospel" 

 as "gofpel," or "honor" as " honoure" — 

 it was "so qvaint, so Shakespearian!" 



A friend, who was making a fortune 

 boiling soap by day, and spending it in 

 gathering a library by night, took him to 

 task one day, thus: "There was a time in 

 the evolution of the alphabet when u and 

 1), c? and f, pand ^, w and -y, etc. , were imper- 





