T is the story which may friend sometimes tells on a long summer evening as we sit together by the open window finding pleasure in the sweet clear air after the still heat of the day .
in those days i was an even batter walker than a am today, and as you know i still very much like a good quick walk.well, on that particular august morning i set out quite early before the on that day was too warm for easy walking . I was healthy on the way that the away from towns of any kind. I was healthy in the way that the food to meet my mall needs and was therefore able to keep away from towns of any kind.i was healthy in the way that the young are healthy and o walked with quick easy steps covering the first eight miles of the road in just under two hour , but with the increase warmth of the day my rate fell little by little .until the full heat of the day i found that i was doing very little more than two and a half miles an hour. Even the small additional weigh of the food i was carrying troubled me , and as it was by this time several hours since my last meal it seemed reasonably that i should look out for a place where i could rest and have a meal in peace.
After a time i reached a point where the road comes very near to a small river and i was pleased enough by that time to walk across the field and to find near the water some undergrowth high enough to offer me some cover from the full light and taht of the open countryside round about.
I took water from the clear quick running river and built a small fire upon some stones and so made my simple meal .such was the heat of the day that it was as much as i could do to keep my eyes open but using all my will power ,i was about to clear away the rest of the food when i saw standing before me a little old woman . so limed was her face that it seemed to me there was more room left was as old as her face. standing there she appeared to to me to represent time itself. but when she began to speak i found her words were common place enough.
Sir she said could you give me some bread and perhaps some milk.
I immediately began to clean up the piece of ground which had served as a table for me making a place for the old woman to and drink offered to her and as she sat without speaking i watched her face.
Tell me old woman i said to my own complete surprised were you always as you are now or were you once young and beautiful . had you once a hpme and a family or have you always walked these roads and fields?
The old woman turned her head and looked at me for a long time without speaking the lines on her face grew even deeper and her old blue eyes were serious as she answered young man i cannot remember for long ages i have walked these toads and these fields i have walked and always i shall walk , i am old and perhaps i have never been young i am plain and perhaps i have never been beautiful you are strong and you have health. you have all the qualities of the young ,because of these things i am speaking to you now .
Shall i tell her to go away i thought. I will stand up and get my things together and continue my walk.
I moved but immediately the voice of the voice of this strange old woman came to me again. No do not go.You must hear what o yes i Thought,. I will wait and hear what she has to say for if she is as wise as she is old her words may be of some use to me in the future,'But the seconds passed and no words came. I looked again and no one was there . not feeling very pleased with myself at the thought that i must have been weak enough to fall off for the thought that i must have been weak enough to fall off for a few minutes and believing that these things had not really happened i began to clear up what was left of my meal. And then i knew that the old woman had been there for my bread was gone and in its place was this.
At this point in his story my friend opens his hand and on a rests a lovely clear blue stone in a beautiful setting of gold.
I always carry this in this history my friend opens his hand and on a rests a lovely clear blue stone in a beautiful setting of gold .
I always carry this about with me now he adds and i know that some day i shall see that old woman again and find out what it was she had to say.
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Exercise No 24 of English Short hand
paper itself has come to us from the far east where it east first used. but the word paper has come down to us from the near east and different from of the word are found in several languages.
paper is certainly one of the most common things in the modern world.Every day masses of it are used every day masses of it are burnt and every day masses more of it are made and supplied to the waiting people of the world.
people always want paper and the manufacturer of it need not fear that the demand for his product will fall off. without paper our modern life would at least for a time come to a complete stop.it is indeed very much to be questioned whether our modern life would at least for a time come to a ever have c about had come htere been no paper or some other product of a like mature which was cheap lasting and serviceable.
Without paper we could not writer letter to one another millions of latters are written every dat some written on paper,
before the use of paper writing had first to be done by cutting the characters out of stome and later by using maerial which cost so mich that inly such peole as kings ans army leaders could have them the common people could not like and it would have then have been nothing on which to write and of course we can see at once how impossible it would be to teach people to write if there was no cheap material on which to write .
today we in this country all go to school as children and there we learn to write and to read and as soon as we can write and read simple words we begin to learn other things until most of us end up by kbowung something about quite a number of things some know more and some know rather less but it is just about impossible to find anyone in this country today who has had the opportunity to learn. and for this happy state of things we generally thank the government . little mote than a hundred than a hundred years ago it was by no mean a natural thing for all children to go to school but the government that have one another throughout the years have made it more and more possible for young [eople to go to school until we have reached the state today when we believe that not only should all children go to school and so learn to read and to write but we believe further that all children should be given the opportunity to received higher education if they show thmselves able to take advantage of such training .
the government have been very wise and helpful in passing all the .
acts which have brought us to this happy state but the facts is that it was really the supply of sheap paper in great amounts that made it possible for us all to learn. can we picture what school life would be like without our notebooks and our instruction books there would stand a teacher and facing him would sit or little children longing let us say to read and to write to learn about the history of their own country and of other countries to learn about their own country and to lands but the teacher has no books because he has no paper and the children have nothing on which they can write and then take away their work and learn it, everything must be done from memory .the teacher has to remember what he has been told and the children in their turn have to remember what they have been told . memory is often a poor help. nearly everyone finds it easier to learn through reading words than through heating them .if we wish we can read the words in a book over and over again but the words of the teacher once said are lost for ever . we can of course ask him to say them over again but the time taken to learn wholly in this way would be so great that the children would end up by knowing very little in most cases.
Learning became general when books became general.While books were the property of the few learning was also the property of the few. Now books may be had for the asking and learning too may be had for the asking .it is only out personal qualities that limit the field of our knowledge.
paper is certainly one of the most common things in the modern world.Every day masses of it are used every day masses of it are burnt and every day masses more of it are made and supplied to the waiting people of the world.
people always want paper and the manufacturer of it need not fear that the demand for his product will fall off. without paper our modern life would at least for a time come to a complete stop.it is indeed very much to be questioned whether our modern life would at least for a time come to a ever have c about had come htere been no paper or some other product of a like mature which was cheap lasting and serviceable.
Without paper we could not writer letter to one another millions of latters are written every dat some written on paper,
before the use of paper writing had first to be done by cutting the characters out of stome and later by using maerial which cost so mich that inly such peole as kings ans army leaders could have them the common people could not like and it would have then have been nothing on which to write and of course we can see at once how impossible it would be to teach people to write if there was no cheap material on which to write .
today we in this country all go to school as children and there we learn to write and to read and as soon as we can write and read simple words we begin to learn other things until most of us end up by kbowung something about quite a number of things some know more and some know rather less but it is just about impossible to find anyone in this country today who has had the opportunity to learn. and for this happy state of things we generally thank the government . little mote than a hundred than a hundred years ago it was by no mean a natural thing for all children to go to school but the government that have one another throughout the years have made it more and more possible for young [eople to go to school until we have reached the state today when we believe that not only should all children go to school and so learn to read and to write but we believe further that all children should be given the opportunity to received higher education if they show thmselves able to take advantage of such training .
the government have been very wise and helpful in passing all the .
acts which have brought us to this happy state but the facts is that it was really the supply of sheap paper in great amounts that made it possible for us all to learn. can we picture what school life would be like without our notebooks and our instruction books there would stand a teacher and facing him would sit or little children longing let us say to read and to write to learn about the history of their own country and of other countries to learn about their own country and to lands but the teacher has no books because he has no paper and the children have nothing on which they can write and then take away their work and learn it, everything must be done from memory .the teacher has to remember what he has been told and the children in their turn have to remember what they have been told . memory is often a poor help. nearly everyone finds it easier to learn through reading words than through heating them .if we wish we can read the words in a book over and over again but the words of the teacher once said are lost for ever . we can of course ask him to say them over again but the time taken to learn wholly in this way would be so great that the children would end up by knowing very little in most cases.
Learning became general when books became general.While books were the property of the few learning was also the property of the few. Now books may be had for the asking and learning too may be had for the asking .it is only out personal qualities that limit the field of our knowledge.
Pit man short hand Exrcise no 30
sometimes it seems that the more we know and the more we learn the less remarkable we considered our learning and our kbowledge to be . when other people can do something that we ourselves cannot o we think that those people must be very wonderful indeed we think that they
must be pf much more worth than we ourselves are yet as soon as we can do that same thing we think nothing of it and begin to look round for something new to learn or to do .
it even seems that we act in this same way in our thoughts about the new goods and the new machine that are so often and so readily out before us in these days it is perhaps difficult to continue to find each new thing so very remarkable when new and better things follow one another at such a great rate we still find ourselves greatly interested however when something quite mew xomes along the first plans to fly over water likes a very poor thing if we seee it now but it certainly caused more talks and gineral interst than the largest and most modern plane causes today let it have four engins or eight engines ot as many as the engineers wish planes are mo longer new and they ate hardly even news the public expects its engineers its engineers and its men of science to bring out newer and larger and better planes for and to fly off to the out does the public pay taxes if not for such things one might ask ?
The first men made objects to free itself from the earth pill amd to fly off to the outer distances may be wirth several lines in the in the newspaper .the second such object may ne much bigger and it may leave the earth much more quickly but because it is mit the fis=rst it cannot hope to get the interest of the public in the way .
in these days we have the most wonderful machines to do for as addition division and other sums . a thousend sums in a second is nothing to such a machine .quickly and still more quickly and still more quickly the figures tly but the public hardly cares it is probable that there was much mote interest three hundred years ago in the first adding machine ever made
must be pf much more worth than we ourselves are yet as soon as we can do that same thing we think nothing of it and begin to look round for something new to learn or to do .
it even seems that we act in this same way in our thoughts about the new goods and the new machine that are so often and so readily out before us in these days it is perhaps difficult to continue to find each new thing so very remarkable when new and better things follow one another at such a great rate we still find ourselves greatly interested however when something quite mew xomes along the first plans to fly over water likes a very poor thing if we seee it now but it certainly caused more talks and gineral interst than the largest and most modern plane causes today let it have four engins or eight engines ot as many as the engineers wish planes are mo longer new and they ate hardly even news the public expects its engineers its engineers and its men of science to bring out newer and larger and better planes for and to fly off to the out does the public pay taxes if not for such things one might ask ?
The first men made objects to free itself from the earth pill amd to fly off to the outer distances may be wirth several lines in the in the newspaper .the second such object may ne much bigger and it may leave the earth much more quickly but because it is mit the fis=rst it cannot hope to get the interest of the public in the way .
in these days we have the most wonderful machines to do for as addition division and other sums . a thousend sums in a second is nothing to such a machine .quickly and still more quickly and still more quickly the figures tly but the public hardly cares it is probable that there was much mote interest three hundred years ago in the first adding machine ever made
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