Second Girl. The card on which you have a, b, c, and so on, might have a, b, c, made with a pen at their backs, to teach written hand.
First Girl. I have a set of those; I could read my mother’s writing when I was four years old.
Second Girl. I will buy some prints or cuts, and paste at the back of cards, for our little ones; so they will soon learn to distinguish nouns. On one side shall be DOG; I will ask what part of speech is that? Charles will say, Is it not a noun?—He will turn the card, and find a cut.
First Girl. Let us prepare some words of all kinds; we can lay sentences for little ones to read. For Lydia, we will place them thus:
Our new dog.
An old cat.
My mother says that three words are as much as a child could read in a breath at first.
Second Girl. Where there is a house full of young folks, it might be good sport to teach and learn in these ways.
First Girl. It is; we play with our words thus; mother gives to one some words; he is to place them so as to make sense: one is to parse them: one to tell more than the parts of speech, as the tense, mode and so on, of the verbs.—George and I have false English to correct; verse to turn to prose; we write out a passage which we like; we write letters upon given subjects; we read a story, and then write it in our own words.
Second Girl. Do you repeat much?