July, 1906 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



345 



Mark Twain 



in HARPER'S WEEKLY: 



"A year and a quarter ago Mr. 

 Foley began to do school-boy poems 

 in a fire-new and blood-curdling and 

 criminal fashion of spelling which 

 no self-respecting eye could endure." 

 . . . . Yet the "public kept on 

 reading the poems in order to curse 

 the spelling, and of course the natural 

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 spelling modified the reader's hostility 

 to it, then reconciled him to it, and 

 at last made him fall in love with it ; 

 and now — well, now Mr. Foley's 

 school-boy is a pet."^ 



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"she gradjewaits tooday ann says goodbito 

 skooldaze fore she nose it all ann i 

 must sea her go far owt upon the way 

 uv life aloan wile i kan onley stay 

 fore yeers ann yeers until i reech the spott 

 weare she stands now. ann then ile be fourgott 

 [bi hur hoo i have wurshipt awl these yeers 

 in sileunce." . . . etc. 



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