Identifier: littletom00till (find matches)
Title: Little Tom
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Tillie, V
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Publisher: Prague :
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ou must learn human letters as well,so that you can read and study our books.« Therefore, she brought her book to the table, and reached for Little Tom to placehim upon it, but he was nowhere to be seen. She looked all about and finally spiedhim clinging desperately to the table cloth. The wind caused by turning the leaves hadblown him over to the very edge of the table and he had barely saved himself. Hewas calling for help when his Godmother rescued him from his perilous position. Soit nearly happened that, at the very outset, a misfortune might have prevented thereading altogether; but, as soon as he had recovered from his fright, Tom offered atonce to begin. He crawled quickly up the golden edge of the book and surveyed the broadwhite plain covered in every direction, with curving black lines. He ran at once tothe upper left hand corner, stepping gingerly on the first large letter. After he hadwalked all over it, he stopped and declared confidently that it was a capital »O«. 32
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In like manner he went on to »N« and »C« and »E« and a little further, until he hadno longer to run completely over a letter but could place himself in the middle andlooking all about him could tell at once what it was. One after the other he spelledand his Godmother was surprised to see how quickly the reading progressed. It was only when he came to the end of the page that he found difficulty, forthen he had to crawl down while she turned the page over; but he thought of a wayto get around this. When he had reached the end of the next page he procured oneof his long spears and crawling a little way down the sloping edge of the opened book,thrust his spear between the leaves and raised the sheet high enough to crawl underit. Then, on his hands and knees, he worked his way to the middle of the book andexerting all his strength, he was able to turn the page over. In a short time, he learned to read so rapidly that he could run swiftly alongthe lines and in this way could cover fi

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