The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit Ch 10 Free Kids Audiobook Children's Online Library.
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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 10

if said kathleen sitting disconsolate in her marble if i am really a statue come alive i wonder you're not afraid of me i've got the ring said mabel with decision cheer up dear you will soon be better try not to think about it

she spoke as you speak to a child that has cut its finger or fallen down on the garden path and rises up with grazed knees to which gravel sticks intimately i know kathleen absently answered and i've been thinking said mabel brightly we might find out a lot about this magic place if the other statues aren't too proud to talk to us they aren't kathleen assured her at least phoebus wasn't he was most awfully polite and nice where is he mabel asked in the lake he was said kathleen then let's go down there said mabel oh kathy it's jolly being your own proper thickness again she jumped up and the withered ferns and branches that had covered her long length and had been gathered closely upon her as she shrank to her proper size fell as forest leaves do when sudden storms tear them but the white kathleen did not move

the two sat on the grey moonlit grass with the quiet of the night all about them the great park was still as a painted picture only the splash of the fountains and the far-off whistle of the western express broke the silence which at the same time they deepened what cheer little sister said a voice behind them a golden voice they turned quick startled heads as birds surprised might turn there in the moonlight stood phoebus dripping still from the lake and smiling at them very gentle very friendly oh it's you said kathleen none other said phoebus cheerfully who is your friend the earth child this is mabel said kathleen mabel got up and bowed hesitated and held out a hand

i am your slave little lady said phoebus enclosing it in marble fingers but i fail to understand how you can see us and why you do not fear mabel held up the hand that wore the ring quite sufficient explanation said phoebus but since you have that why retain your mottled earthy appearance become a statue and swim with us in the lake i can't swim said mabel evasively nor yet me said kathleen you can said phoebus all statues that come to life are proficient in all athletic exercises and you child of the dark eyes and hair like knight wish yourself a statue and join our revels i'd rather not if you will excuse me said mabel cautiously you see this ring you wish for things and you never know how long they're going to last it would be jolly and all that to be a statue now but in the morning i should wish i hadn't earth folk often do they say mused phoebus but child you seem ignorant of the powers of your ring wish exactly and the ring will exactly perform if you give no limit of time strange enchantments woven by arithmos the outcast god of numbers will creep in and spoil the spell save us i wish that till the dawn i may be a statue of living marble even as my child friend and that after that time i may be as before mabel of the dark eyes and night-colored hair oh yes too it would be so charlie cried kathleen do mabel and if we're both statues shall we be afraid of the dinosaurs in the world of living marble fear is not said phoebus are we not brothers we and the dinosaurus brethren alike wrought of stone and life and i could swim if i did swim and float and dive and with the ladies of olympus spread the nightly feast eat of the food of the gods drink their cup listen to the song that is undying and catch the laughter of immortal lips

a feast said kathleen oh mabel do you what if you were as hungry as i am but it won't be real food urged mabel it will...

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 Duccio Free Audiobook.
chapter 2 of lives of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects volume 2. this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by morgan scorpion lives of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects volume 2 by giorgio vasari translated by gaston ducey de vere chapter 2 life of ducho painter of siena without doubt those who are inventors of anything notable receive the greatest attention from the pens of the writers of history and this comes to pass because the first inventions are more observed and held in greater marvel by reason of the delight that the novelty of the thing brings with it then all the improvements made afterwards by any man whatsoever when works are brought to the height of perfection for the reason that if a beginning were never given to anything there would be no advance and improvement in the middle stages and the end would not become excellent and of a marvelous beauty due till then painter of siena and much esteemed deserved to carry off the palm from those who came many years after him since in the pavement of the duomo of siena he made a beginning in marble for the inlaid work of the figures in ciao oscuro wherein today modern craftsmen have made the marvels that are seen in them he applied himself to the imitation of the old manner and with very sane judgment gave dignified forms to his figures which he fashioned very excellently in spite of the difficulties of such an art with his own hand imitating the pictures in tower skewer he arranged and designed the beginnings of the said pavement and he made in the duomo a panel that was then placed on the high altar and afterwards removed thence in order to place there the tabernacle of the body of christ which is seen there at the present day in this panel according to the description of lorenzo di bartolo giberti there was a coronation of our lady wrote as it were in the greek manner but blended considerably with the modern and as it was painted both on the back part and on the front the said high altar being isolated right round on the said back part they had been made by duchy with much diligence all the principal stories of the new testament with very beautiful little figures i have sought to learn where this panel is to be found today but for all the diligence that i have there and two used i have never been able to discover it or to learn what francesco did georgio the sculptor did with it when he remade the said tabernacle in bronze as well as the marble ornaments that are therein he made likewise many panels on the grounds of gold throughout siena and one in florence in san trinita wherein there is an annunciation he painted next very many works for diverse churches in pisa in lucca and in pistoia which were all consummately praised and acquired for him very great fame and profit finally it is not known where this duchy died nor what relatives disciples or wealth he left it is enough that for having left art the heir to his invention of making pictures of marble in ciao o'scuro he deserves infinite commendation and praise for such a benefit to art and that he can be assuredly numbered among the benefactors who confer advancement and adornment on our profession considering that those who go on investigating the difficulties of rare inventions leave their memory behind them besides all their marvelous works they say in siena that ducho in the year 1348 gave the design for the chapel that is in the square against the wall of the palazzo principali and it is read that there lived in his times a sculptor and architect of passing good talent from the same country named macho who made many works throughout all tuscany and particularly one in the church of san domenico in orezo namely a tomb of marble for one of the churchi which tomb acts as...

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Elizabeth Celnart 1.

part one introduction of the gentleman and ladies book of politeness and propriety of the fortnite this is a liver fox recording a liver fox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverworks.org recording by lynn silva the gentlemen and ladies book of politeness and propriety of department by elizabeth elnar part 1 introduction or propriety of department and its advantages propriety of deportment or beyonce is a happy union of the moral and the graceful it should be considered in two points of view and other four to direct us in our important truthies as well as our more trifling enjoyments when we record it only under this last aspect some content that mere intercourse with the world gives a habit and taste for those modest and obliging observances which constitute true politeness but this is an error propriety of deportment is the valuable result of a knowledge of oneself and respect for the rights of the others it is a feeling of the sacrifices which are imposed on self-esteem by our social relations it is in short a sacred requirement of harmony and affection but the usage of the world is merely the gloss or rather the imitation of propriety since instead of being lactate based upon sincerity modesty and courtesy it consists in not being constant in anything and in amusing itself by playing off its feelings and ridicule against the defects and excellences of others provided that this is done with grace and is never carried so far as to wound the self-esteem of anyone thanks to custom it is sufficient in order to be recognized as amiable that he who is the subject of a malicious blessed tree may laugh as well as the author of it the usage of the world is therefore often nothing more than a skillful calculation of vanity a futile game a superficial observance of form a false politeness which would lead to privality or perfidy did not true politeness animated with delicacy reserve and benevolence but that custom had never been separated from this virtuous amiableness we should then never see well-intentioned and good people suspicious of politeness and when victims to the deceitful trustless claim with bitterness this is your man of politeness nor should we ever have made a distinction between the fixed principles of virtue and what is fit and expedient the love of good in a word virtue is the soul of politeness the feeling of a just harmony between our interests and our social relations is also indispensable to this agreeable quality excessive gaity extravagant joy great depression anger love jealousy avarice and generally all the passions are too often dangerous trolls to propriety of department moderation in everything is so essential that it is even a violation of propriety itself to affect too much the observance of it it is the propriety its justice and attractions that we owe all the charm i might almost say that being able to live in society at once the effect and cause of civilization it avails itself of the grand spring of the human mind self-love in order to purify and enable it substitute for bride and all those egotistical or offensive feelings which it generates benevolence with all the amiable and generous sentiments which it inspires in an assembly of truly polite people all evil seems to be unknown what is trust esteemable and good or what we call feet are suitable is felt on all sides and actions manners and language alike indicated now if you place in the select assembly a person is a stranger to the advantages of a polite education he will at once be made sensible of the value of it and will immediately desire to display the same urbanity by which he has himself been pleased if politeness is necessary in general it is not less so in particular cases neither rank talents fortune or beauty can dispense with this amenity of manners nor can anything...

Little Wars (Sexism Alert) Wargaming Audiobooks Free Kids' 2 Library Children's Games H G Wells.
this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina little wars by h.g wells chapter 3 the rules here then are the rules of the perfect battle game as we play it in an ordinary room the country one the country must be arranged by one player who failing any other agreement shall be selected by the toss of a coin two the other player shall then choose which side of the field he will fight from three the country must be disturbed as little as possible in each move nothing in the country shall be moved or set aside deliberately to facilitate the firing of guns a player must not lie across the country so as to crush or disturb the country if his opponent objects whatever is moved by accident shall be replaced after the end of the move the move one after the country is made and the sides chosen then and not until then the player shall toss for the first move two if there is no curtain the player winning the toss thereafter called the first player shall next arrange his man along his back line as he chooses any man he may place behind or in front of his back line shall count in the subsequent move as if they touched the back line at its nearest point the second player shall then do the same but if a curtain is available both first and the second player may put down their men at the same time both players may take unlimited time for the putting down of their men if there is a curtain that is drawn back when they are ready and the game then begins three the subsequent moves after the putting down are timed the length of time given for each move is determined by the size of the forces engaged about a minute should be allowed for moving 30 men and a minute for each gun thus for a force of 110 men and three guns moved by one player seven minutes is an ample allowance as the battle progresses and the men are killed off the allowance is reduced as the players may agree the player about to move stands at attention a yard behind his back line until the time keeper says go he then proceeds to make his move until time is up he must instantly stop at the cry of time warnings should be given by the time keeper two minutes one minute and thirty seconds before time is up there will be an interval before the next move during which any disturbance of the country can be rearranged and men accidentally overturned replaced in a proper attitude this interval must not exceed five or four minutes as may be agreed upon for guns must not be fired before the second move of the first player not counting the putting down as a move thus the first player puts down then the second player the first player moves then the second player and the two forces are then supposed to come into effective range of each other and the first player may open fire if he wishes to do so five in making his move a player must move or fire his guns if he wants to do so before moving his men to this rule of guns first there is to be no exception six every soldier may be moved and every gun moved or fired at each move subject to the following rules

mobility of the various arms each player must be provided with two pieces of string one two feet in length and the other six inches one an infantry man may be moved a foot or any less distance at each move two a cavalryman may be moved two feet or any less distance at each move three a gun is in action if there are at least four men of its own side within six inches of it if there are not at least four men within that distance it can neither be moved nor fired four if a gun is in action it can either be moved or fired at each move but not both if it is fired it may fire as many as four shots in each move it may be swung around on its axis the middle point of its wheel axle to...

Hallowe'en at Merryvale by Alice Hale Burnett 3 Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain.
chapter 3 of halloween at maryvale by alice hale burnett this librivox recording is in the public domain recorded by nan dodge the swinging apples mother brown now whispered something in fat's ear and with a broad grin fat disappeared through the door leading to the kitchen in another moment he reappeared carrying two large well-greased pans in his hands at once the boys all crowded about the fireplace trying to help and in less time than it takes to tell the taffy that had been boiling in the large pot was poured into the pans and set away to cool by jiminy i hope it tastes as good as it smells observed toad i'm sure it will replied mother brown with a smile stand in line ordered chuck while i tie your hands behind your backs you're not going to spank us are you whale fat making believe to cry no silly laugh chalk adding everyone take off his slip now we need our whole faces to play this game toad with the help of father brown then placed a long pole so that the ends rested on the top of two bookcases and from it hung many bright red apples tied on with strings now said chuck the fellow who can take one good bite out of an apple without using anything to steady it with gets a prize me first cried herbie all right was the reply go ahead and herbie started at first it seemed very easy but whenever he got ready to take a good bite the apple always slipped away the boys all laughed as herbie made one dive after another i have a bite cried ready i picked that one out for you herbie then gave the apple a push and stood with his mouth wide open awaiting the return swing but instead of getting a bite the apple landed on his nose fat fairly rolled over with laughter and after a few more attempts herbie gave up his place to lin smith then father brown took herbie's apple off the string and tossing it to him said here's the booby prize lynn had no better luck than herbie although he tried his hardest the apple always bobbed about his head rolling away just as he thought he had it your necks called out toad as fat stepped forward toward the apples good evening said fat bowing low i have a very empty feeling would you like to step inside ah hurry up shouted ready i want to turn sometime tonight so do i chimed in hopi smith fat grinned don't be in such a hurry it never pays he retorted again and again he tried but did no better than the rest hopi smith who followed had no success and then came ready's turn bending down he brought his face up under the lower end of the apple and opening his mouth very wide and bringing his teeth together with a quick snap he succeeded in biting a piece out of the apple dandy shouted toad he gets the prize and as he handed the winner a box ready opened it and exclaimed oh it's a knife that's great and i needed one too that's a beauty declared herbie you're lucky red end of chapter three

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 2 Free Audiobooks Plays Prose Tale Teller Books.
chapter 2 of the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde chapter 2 as they entered they saw dorian gray he was seated at the piano with his back to them turning over the pages of a volume of schumann's forest scenes he must lend me this basil he cried i want to learn them they are perfectly charming that entirely depends on how you sit today dorian uh i'm tired of sitting and i don't want a life-sized porter to myself answered the lad swinging round on the music stool in a willful petulant manner when he caught sight of lord henry a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment and he started up i beg your pardon battle but i didn't know you had anyone with you this is lord henry wooten dorian an old oxford friend of mine i've just been telling him what a capital city you were and now you have spoiled everything you have not spoiled my pleasure in meeting you mr gray said lord henry stepping forward and extending his hand my aunt has often spoken to me about you you are one of her favorites and i am afraid one of her victims also i'm in lady agatha's black books at present answered dorian with a funny look of penitence i promised to go to a club in white chapel with her last tuesday and i really forgot all about it we were to have played a duet together three duets i believe i don't know what she will say to me i am far too frightened to call oh i will make your peace with my aunt she is quite devoted to you oh and i don't think it really matters about your not being there the audience probably thought it was a duet when aunt agatha sits down to the piano she makes quite enough noise for two people that is very hard to her and not very nice to me answered dorian laughing lord henry looked at him yes he was certainly wonderfully handsome with his finely curved scarlet lips his frank blue eyes his crisp gold hair there was something in his face that made one trust him at once all the candor of youth was there as well as all youth's passionate purity one felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world no wonder basil hallwood worshipped him you are too charming to go in for philanthropy mr gray far too charming and lord henry flung himself down on the divine and opened his cigarette case the painter had been busy mixing his colors and getting his brushes ready he was looking worried and when he heard lord henry's last remark he glanced at him hesitated for a moment and then said harry i want to finish this picture today would you think it awfully rude of me if i asked you to go away lord henry smiled and looked at dorian gray am i to go mr gray he asked oh please don't lord henry i see that basil is in one of his sulky moods and i can't bear him when he sulks besides i want you to tell me why i should not go in for philanthropy i don't know that i shall tell you that mr gray it is so tedious a subject that one would have to talk seriously about it but i certainly shall not run away now that you have asked me to stop you don't really mind basil do you you have often told me that you liked your sitters to have someone to chat to hallward bit his lip if dorian wishes it of course you must stay dorian's whims are laws to everybody except himself lord henry took up his hat and gloves you are very pressing basel but i am afraid i must go i have promised to meet a man at the orleans goodbye mr gray come and see me some afternoon in cursing street i am nearly always at home at five o'clock write to me when you are coming i should be sorry to miss you basil cried dorian gray if lord henry watten goes i shall go too you never open your lips while you are painting and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant ask him to stay i...

How To Play Any Instrument Before You Pick it Up Free Lecture from the Tale Teller Audiobook.
i wanted to talk today uh briefly about how you can learn a piece of music and you can almost learn how to play it before you've even picked up your instrument now when i teach little ones i start with miming and we mime with the instrument of our choice sometimes these little ones don't even play an instrument yet and this quite a good tool for developing a desire to play a particular instrument that they like the feel of you know pretending it's in front of them in their arms in their hands etc now the next step to that is something i call tracing and it's a really useful tool for teachers and students and it's something that i still do and i've been playing for you know a number of years and i'm quite an experienced musician and i still find this tool incredibly helpful i maybe do it in a slightly more sophisticated way but what you do is you listen to the music over and over again i always say to my students please listen to the piece in the car on your alexa when you go to sleep at night put it on a loop while you're jogging put it on and put all the tracks that you're working with at any given time on a loop including your scales listen to everything over and over again you will become a better musician without ever playing a note if you listen okay even if you're not listening as such if you're hearing the subliminal um teaching goes on it's what happens in life it's how our brains work so you don't even have to pay attention miming or tracing requires paying a little bit more attention and the tracing what that means is that you use your finger or your arm or your hand and you almost pretend you're a conductor and you understand where the notes are going up the scale and where they are coming down the scale so you would follow them with your hand and then come down up and down up and down so you it's a bit you'll look a bit like a conductor but of course you're not unless you know how to conduct of course which is even better but you know we don't want to put too many skills in our little minds all at once that's a really bad idea so up up up down down down up up up down down down do you see up and down up and down and if you do this through the whole song you can get a picture in your mind's eye of yourself performing this up up down down up down up down and you will see yourself you know imagine yourself in a sort of um a room a performance room and and you're doing this you know and you're hearing the tune you know you know this tune because you've listened to this tune so many times you know exactly what's going to happen and you um you know when the motives are repeated when the phrasing uh slows starts where things repeat et cetera et cetera you just know now you just know and this physicality of going up and down with the hands in a conductor type way it is even more successful at imprinting what you need to do in your brain now for a string instrument you could even do in a cross movement so if you're going you can imagine this is very much to do with miming so you imagine where you are on the string and then if you're going up higher but your string crossing um you would do that do you see and if you were i won't go into details about um going um uh lower on the register but higher in the scale because that's far too confusing at the moment but as a teacher you would you could use these tools um to really set in stone what uh the motion should be and where the ear and the hand relate to one another and where they will be going so after i've done that um and you can do this with a group it's a great thing to do with a with a an orchestra even um you know a young orchestra or a group of singers i mean singers are pretty good at this stuff instrumentalists find it a bit harder and that's why i also ask my students to sing or hum a lot of people have they get quite they feel quite awkward about singing because...

Favorite Prayers Collection 1:4 (Pluralistic and Multilingual) Ill Canitico St Francis of Assisi.
cantico delle creature di san francesco d'assisi letto per favorite players collection one su libri box questa registrazione è di dominio pubblico per ulteriori informazioni o per diventare volontari visitate lib il vox punto orc registrazione di riccardo della martera cantico delle creature altissimo onnipotente bonsignore due sole laude la gloria e l'onore e donne benedizione ad te solo altissimo se con fa ne è nullo uomo e ne di nutrimento vare laudato si mi signore con tutte le tue creature specialmente messo lo frate sole lo quale giorno età lumini noi per lui e te lu è bello e radiante comunque un grande splendore d'été altissimo porta significazione laudato si mi signore per sora luna e le stelle in cellulari formate clarity e preziose e belle laudato si mi signore per frate vento e per aere et nubilo et sereno e one tempo per la quale alle tue creature dai sostentamento laudato si mi signore per sor aqua la quale è molto utile e umile e preziosa e casta laudato si mi signore per frate fuoco per la quale in alluminio la notte e te lo è bello e io qundo e robusto e forte laudato si mi signore per sora nostra matre terra la quale ne sostenta e governa e produce diversi frutti con coloriti fiori ed erba laudato si mi signore per quelli che perdonano per lo tuo amore e sostengo infermità te e tribù l'azione beati quelli che il sosterrano in pace tradate altissimo cyrano incoronati laudato si mi signore per sora nostra morte corporale dalla quale non l'uomo vivente può scappare guai a quelli che vorranno nelle peccati mortali beati quelli che troverà nelle tue santissime volontati cala morte seconda non farà male laudate e benedice temi signore e ringraziate e serviate lì con grande umili tate fine del cantico delle creature registrazione di riccardo della martera

Favorite Prayers Collection 1:3 (Pluralistic and Multilingual) Bar Mitzvah Free Download.
bar mitzvah prayer by benjamin artem 1835-1879

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bar mitzvah prayer o my god and god of my fathers on this solemn and sacred day which markets my passage from boyhood to manhood i humbly venture to raise my eyes unto thee and to declare with sincerity and truth that henceforth i will observe all thy commandments and undertake to bear the responsibility of all mine actions towards thee in my earliest infancy i was brought within thy sacred covenant with israel and today i again enter as an active responsible member the pale of thine elect congregation in the midst of which i will never cease to glorify thy holy name in the face of all nations do thou o heavenly father hearken unto this my humble prayer and vouch safe unto me thy gracious blessings so that my earthly life may be sustained and made happy by thine ineffable mercies teach me the way of thy statutes that i may obey them and faithfully carry out thy ordinances dispose my heart to love thee and to fear thy holy name and grant me thy support and the strength necessary to avoid the worldly dangers which encompass the path lying before me save me from temptation so that i may with fortitude observe thy holy law and those precepts on which human happiness and eternal life depend thus i will every day of my life trustfully and gladly proclaim hear o israel the lord is our god the lord is one

end of bar mitzvah prayer by benjamin arton

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A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi 2 Free Audiobook Biography Tale Teller Book Clubs.
chapter 2 of a japanese boy by shigemi shiyukichi this librivox recording is in the public domain chapter 2 old-fashioned school my school master the schoolhouse the earliest recollection i have of my school life is my entrance with a number of playmates into a private gentleman school at that time the common school system which now exists in japan had not been adopted some gentlemen of the town kept private schools in which exercises consisted mainly of penmanship for arithmetic we had to go somewhere else in imabari there lived a keen-eyed little man who was wonderfully quick as figures and to him we prepared for instructions in mathematics we worked not with slade and pencil but with a rectangular wooden frame set with beads resembling an abacus it is called soroban you find it in every store in japan i liked it better than slate and pencil for the fundamental operations of arithmetic but cannot use it in higher mathematics i remember seeing a young man of my acquaintance performing algebraic calculations of which we had some knowledge before the influx of western learning with a number of little black and white blocks called the mathematical blocks a knowledge of penmanship and arithmetic is all that is required of a man of business but a learned man is expected to read chinese

my schoolmaster was a kind of priest not of buddhism nor of shintoism but one of those who go by the name of yamabushi he let his hair grow instead of shaving it off as the buddhist priest does wore high clogs and the peculiar robe of his religion he simply followed his father in the vocation he was a young man of high promise and manifested more order in letters than at the prayers for the sick or for the prosperity of the people his house was on the fourth block of the main street set back a little from the street and with an open yard between the tall elaborate gate and the mansion the front of the residence was taken up by the shrine the school was kept in the back part of the house when we first entered the school we were known as the newcomers among the older boys and though bullying was not altogether absent we had no ordeal to go through as the freshmen have in american colleges the pupils equipment in one of these old-fashioned schools consisted of a low table a cushion to squat upon and a chest for the following articles white paper copy books and a small box containing a stone ink vessel a cake of india ink an earthen water bottle and brushes a little water is poured in the hollow of the stone vessel the india ink rubbed on it for a while and when the water becomes sufficiently black the brush is dipped in it then looking at model characters written down for us in a separate book by the teacher we try to trace the same on our copy books paying close attention to every particular the first we must learn is our alphabet of 48 letters i recall vividly the trials of making the alphabetical figures i tried time and again but to fail the sorrow gathered thickly in my mind and soon the grief overpowered all my strenuous efforts not to weep then the master would send one of the older boys to help me he stands behind me while i sit grasp my hand which holds the brush and to my heart's content traces figures like the masters in perfection the copybook is made of tenacious soft japanese paper many sheets of which are bound together each of the 48 characters is studied separately it is written large so that the learner may see where a bold stroke is required and where a mild touch after the alphabet we learn to write chinese characters the copy books become black after a while being dried and used again therefore they need not be perfectly white at first usually they are made of the sheets of an old ledger i used to see on the pages of the copy books made for me by my father old debts and credits and the names of the parties concerned in them...