I want you to write me two copies, one with the letters all separate, and the other with the letters together.
"Well," said Mary Bell, "I will." So she sat down to her desk, taking up her pen, she dipped it into the inkstand.

The inkstand had been placed into the chair which Mary Bell's end of the ironing-board rested upon.

It could not stand safely on the board itself as that was sloping.
Mary Bell wrote the letters M--A--R--Y, in a large plain hand upon the top of the paper, and then in a same line she wrote them again, joining them together in a word.

Mary Erskine stood by while she wrote, examining very attentively her method of doing the work, and especially her way of holding the pen.

When the copy was finished, Mary Erskine cut it off from the top of the paper and pinned it up against the side of the room, where she could look at it and study the names of the letters in the intervals of her work during the day.
"There," said she in a tone of satisfaction when this was done.