Excerpt from Shorthand and Type-Writer Dictation Exercises, Counted and Timed for Elias Longley: For and 150 The compiler has been for many years a teacher of Phonography, both to beginners and to advanced students; and during that time he has spent much labor in selecting and preparing appropriate matter for the persevering learner - matter that will interest and instruct, and therefore keep the attention, while it affords the best verbal and phraseological practice for all classes of work. The contents of these pages are the sult of that labor and devotion to the chosen profession of his life. In placing them in this permanent form for the use of his fellow teachers and private learners, without regard to the systems of shorthand preterm dl the writer'hopes that his judgment in making the selections, and in dividing the matter into convenient divisions for the use of pupils of sill grades, will be entirely satisfactory, and prove of as much value to teachers and. Pupils as they have been to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.