THE STORY OF THE ALPHABET
Chapter I
I want to tell you a story about something you use every day, something you could not get along without, and yet that you never think about or are glad to have. I do not believe that even after I tell you several things about it you can guess what it is.
It is one of the oldest things in the world, so old that no one knows when it was first used.
It is a more wonderful thing, a great many people think, than the invention of steamboats and steamcars, or of airships and submarines.
It is so important that you could not have any books without it, and if there were no books, you would not go to school, and then how could you learn all the things you want to know?
It is so common that you see it and hear it and use it almost every minute of the day.