Before October, 1893, I udied various subjects by myself in a more or less desultory manner. I read tories of Greece, Rome and ted States. I , and as I already kneecies as mucried, aid, to master tion, as I found all tters and sounds described in tasking slender po ends; but it gave me someto do on a rainy day, and I acquired a sufficient knoaines quot;Fables,quot; quot;Le Medecin Malgre Luiquot; and passages from quot;Athalie.”
I also gave considerable time to t of my speeco Miss Sullivan and recited passages from my favourite poets, o memory; sed my pronunciation and o p. It , il October, 1893, after I igue and excitement of my visit to t I began to s at fixed hours.
Miss Sullivan and I t time in on, Pennsylvania, visiting the family of Mr. illiam ade. Mr.
Irons, a neigin sc I sudy under nature and of en ic, eresting. Mr.
Irons also read ennysons quot;In Memoriam.quot; I never from a critical point of vie time to knoo recognize yle as I recognize the clasp of a friends hand.
At first I o study Latin grammar. It seemed absurd to e time analyzing, every ive, singular, feminine--e plain. I t I mig as in order to kno--order, vertebrate; division, quadruped; class, mammalia; genus, felinus; species, cat; individual, tabby. But as I got deeper into t, I became more interested, and ty of ted me. I often amused myself by reading Latin passages, picking up ood and trying to make sense. I o enjoy time.
tiful, I t fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar flit across tal sky, sinted by capricious fancy. Miss Sullivan sat beside me at my lessons, spelling into my ever Mr. Irons said, and looking up ne beginning to read Caesars quot;Gallic arquot; o my home in Alabama.