Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 476
nothingwhatever to do with cattle or plowing. Then it iscalled a piece of sound-writing, because it does notrecall a certain given thing, but a sound. Sound-writing is thus an improved kind of picture-writing.You all know sound-writing, and have probablycomposed sentences in it, but you know it… … thousand years ago our ancestors had no otherkind of writing. So, when you make a rebus infun, you are doing what our forefathers did in deepearnest, because they had no better way. Thinkhow very tiresome it would be to write letters andessays and books, if we had to use rebuses ! And the next step…
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