It  I learned to speak. to utter audible sounds rong o make noises, keeping one  s of my lips. I  made a noise and liked to feel t purr and to keep my , or on a piano  my sig learning to talk, but after my illness it  I o speak because I could not o sit in my mot amused me to feel tions of oo, altten alking  I laugurally, and for a because tion, but because tive. till remembered, AtER. I pronounced it quot;; Even telligible until time eacopped using it only after I o spell the word on my fingers.

    I ime t t me used a metion different from mine; and even before I kne a deaf caugo speak, I isfaction ion I already possessed. One  upon t raint, of narroo agitate me  ss en rise and beat up like birds against ted in using my lips and voice. Friends tried to discourage tendency, fearing lest it o disappointment. But I persisted, and an accident soon occurred  barrier--I ory of Ragna.

    In 1890 Mrs. Lamson, urned from a visit to Noro see me, and told me of Ragna, a deaf and blind girl in Noraugo speak. Mrs. Lamson elling me about t I, too, o speak. I  rest satisfied until my teacook me, for advice and assistance, to Miss Sarahe horace Mann School.

    t-natured lady offered to teacy-sixth of March, 1890.

    Miss Fullers metly over  me feel tion of ongue and lips ate every motion and in an s of speec, I. Miss Fuller gave me eleven lessons in all. I s t I felt  connected sentence, quot;It is ; true, tammering syllables; but trengt of bondage, and h.

    No deaf cly tried to speak to come out of tone of love, no song of bird, no strain of music ever pierces tillness--can forget ttered  alked to my toys, to stones, trees, birds and dumb animals, or t I felt o me or my dogs obeyed my commands. It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in  need no interpretation. As I talked, s fluttered up out of my  migruggled in vain to escape my fingers.

    But it must not be supposed t I could really talk in t time. I s of speecand me, but most people  ood one rue t, after I s, I did t of t for Miss Sullivans genius, untiring perseverance and devotion, I could not oural speec place, I laboured nigood even by my most intimate friends; in tance constantly in my efforts to

    articulate eaco combine all sounds in a ttention every day to mispronounced words.

    All teac t all appreciate ties o contend. In reading my teac on my fingers: I o use touccions of t, ts of ten t fault. In suco repeat tences, sometimes for il I felt tice, practice, practice.

    Discouragement and  me doly; but t moment t t I s  I o t.

    quot;My little sister and me no;  stronger tacles. I used to repeat ecstatically, quot;I am not dumb no; I could not be despondent ed t of talking to my mot astoniso find  is to talk to spell  as a medium of communication on my part; but Miss Sullivan and a feill use it in speaking to me, for it is more convenient and more rapid than lip-reading.

    Just ter explain our use of t, o me spells  generally employed by tly as not to impede its movements. tion of to feel as it is to see. I do not feel eacter any more tter separately  practice makes t as fast as an expert es on a typeer. t t is in ing.

    to go  last t of s arrived. I alking constantly to Miss Sullivan, not for talking, but determined to improve to t minute. Almost before I kne, train stopped at tuscumbia station, and tform stood tears noo rembling , taking in every syllable t I spoke, ion in a big silence. It ains and to singing, and all trees of their hands!”