For all the spelling-schools ever seen could not enable her to stand anywhere but at the foot of the class.

There is one branch diligently taught in a backwoods school.

The public mind seems impressed with the difficulties of English orthography, and there is a solemn conviction that the chief end of man is to learn to spell.

"'Know Webster's Elementary' came down from Heaven," would be the backwoods version of the 'Greek saying but that, unfortunately for the Greeks, their fame has not reached so far.

It often happens that the pupil does not know the meaning of a single word in the lesson.