Excerpt from The Gradual Reader: First Step, or Exercises in Articulation; Designed to Develope and Strengthen the Organs of Speech, and to Facilitate the Correct Utterance of the Elementary Sounds and Their Combinations The letters in italics have the Sound of a, as heard in ale, age, gave, fame, name, gale, save late, mate, fate, aim, aid, straight, plain, snail, complaint, jail, rain, daily, swain, brain, raiment, pay, sway, display, stray, decay, nay, day, array, play, allay, obey, survey, prey, they, whey, hey-dey, conveyance, freight, inveigh, feint, weigh, deign, sleigh, Skein, heinous, neighbor, gauge, gaol, gaoler, break, great, steak, ere. So stately her hearing, so proud her array, the main she will traverse forever and aye. The breaking waves dashed high. He gave to the gale his snow-white sail. Our age is but a shade, our life a tale. Plain sense but rarely leads us far astray. The earth is veiled in shades of night. 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.