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I am progressing in my work very well. I have a bad memory, which is a great drawback, and I am sure you would laugh to see the expedients I adopt in order to remember things. I find that dodge of Pa’s, of putting things into verse, very profitable. Thus in the English Language we have lists of words to learn, which are of Scandinavian form. I remember some of them by these lines

Boil the pudding, flatten the sky

Lubbers Lurk, and kids are sly

In learning the liquids, mutes, etc, I cannot remember the letters, they get so confused in my head. So I have made these lines.

Liquids = rats like many nuts

Labial mutes = pigs furnish beautiful veal

Dental mutes = toads think during death

Gutterals = Kaffirs cheat green ghosts.

The mere oddity of these lines helps me to remember them. Without them I could not say two letters right, and with them I can classify all the Letters in a moment.