Excerpt from Speech Hesitation Great attention was given to the refractory sounds, always supposing them to be consonants. They were practiced before and after the vowels; words in which they and their combinations occurred were woven into sentences, and readings were selected for this especial pur pose. When a half day had been spent in this way, the pupil was sent out to make a trial of his strength on some errand or by the use of these particular words among his playmates. The invariable report on his return would be: I could not speak the words. They never were so hard before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.