Now you have read the parts of the word ab-ra-ca-dab-ra all separated, you can read them very easily together, so as to make one word, and the word will be Abracadabra.
5. This long and hard word was the name of a false god, that was worshiped many hundreds of years ago, by a people who did not know the true God, whom we worship; and they very foolishly supposed that by wearing this name, written on paper, in a certain manner, it would cure them of many diseases.
6. Here are a few more long and hard words, divided in the same manner, which you may first read by syllables, that is, one syllable at a time:
| Val | e | tu | di | na´ | ri | an. | |
| In | de | fat | i | ga | bil´ | i | ty. |
| Hy | po | chon | dri´ | a | cal. | ||
| Me | temp | sy | cho´ | sis. | |||
| Hal | lu | ci | na´ | tion. | |||
| Zo | o | no´ | mi | a. | |||
| Ses | qui | pe | dal´ | i | ty. |
7. You may now read these long words as they are here presented, without a division of the syllables, as follows: valetudinarian, indefatigability, hypochondriacal, metempsychosis, hallucination, zoonomia, sesquipedality.
8. Now, you see that words which look hard, and which you find difficult to read, can be easily read, if you take the pains to divide them into parts or syllables, and not try to read the whole word at once.
9. I now propose to relate to you a little story which I read when I was a little boy, and which I think will make you remember what I have just told you about reading hard words, by first taking them to pieces, and reading a part of them at a time.
10. A father, who was dying, called his seven sons around his bed, and showed them a bundle of small sticks tied together, and asked each one to try to break all the sticks at once, without untying the bundle.
11. Each of the sons took the bundle of sticks, and putting it across his knee, tried with all his strength to break it; but not one of them could break the sticks, or even bend them, while they were tied together.