CHAPTER XIX 



THE EAR WE CANNOT SEE 



Several years ago a man examined the ears of hundreds 

 of children in Europe and found that about one quarter 

 of them were a little deaf. 



These children did not know it themselves; they 

 thought they could hear as well as anybody. The teachers 

 thought so too, only they were quite sure that those 

 special children were the dull ones in the school. No 

 doubt they were rather surprised when the man who 

 examined them found that generally the dull ones were 

 also the deaf ones. 



The same man next went to a school in Scotland. 

 There he asked the teachers to pick out seventy bright 

 children and seventy dull children for him to examine. 

 Strange to say, he found about twice as many deaf 

 children among the seventy who were dull as among the 

 seventy who were bright. Naturally enough, with such 

 proof as that, he began to be pretty positive that dull- 

 ness and deafness often go together. 



From there he went to a school in England, where he 

 became even more positive than ever; for here he found 

 that most of the bright children could hear his watch 



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