Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 386
ers in this country,who cannot grapple with Englishas She is Wrote, and consequentlymust spell entirely by sound. Thus,for example, an Italian writesAvergrasson for Havre-de-Grace;a Hungarian spells New Jersey,Schaszerscie; and a Frenchmanabbreviates Rhode Island intoBadaland. A not unusual… … MRS. LUCY JACKSON, SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT-HOUSE, VIRGINIA. have been Fox Trap; and Rising Sun, Colo., wassent to Sunshine. Sometimes a puzzled inquirerinvades this particular branch of work, and iseager to learn how the experts can read thesepuzzles. But the skilled workers guard well the tricks of…
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