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so as to form words. A few trials satisfied him that this plan would enable him to succeed. After vast labour and study, he had complicated eighty six characters & with these began 5o frame sentences.

     In the course of this long and silent study, every one was troubled about the strange whim that George Gist had taken into this head. His friend Turtle Fields now came to pay him a visit. "My friend" said Turtle Field, to him, "My friend, there are a great many remarks made upon this employment which you have taken up. Our people are much concerned about you. They think you are wasting your life . They think, my friend, that you are making a fool of yourself, and will be no longer respected.
     Gist replied, "It is not our people that have advised me to this and it is not therefore our people who can be blamed if I am wrong. What I have done I have done from myself. If our people think I am making a fool of myself. You may tell our people that what I am doing will not make fools of them. They did not cause me to begin & they shall not cause me to give up. If words marked out I