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George Lowry answered, "It may be that you are not forgetful. The marks you have made bring up certain associations, as like -lined out poles or heaps of stone word scratched out call back all the events connected with particular places, or as a knot in a handkerchief reminds one of an engagement. You understand, not from the marks what --scratched out you have invented, but from what these marks lead you to remember.

      Gist observed, "The same marks will make me remember very different things, according to the way in which I place them; and things which I had forgotten. When I write any thing, I lay it by; ____ I think of it no more; -- I do not remember what I have written: but at any time afterwards when I take up the paper, all I have written is brought back to my recollection by reading on the paper." -- Gist then went home.
      Next morning, George Lowry went over to see words scratched out him at his own house. He called up his little daughter. She was five or six years old.
      "Eye - orh - kah," said Gist, "Say over my alphabet by heart, words scratched out as I hold up the characters."
      The little girl, her head raised, spoke out the sounds