There it is, in that horn book, you see.

It looks like two men, or two trees, leaning against each other for support; with a line, which might be their hands, in the middle.
"Now, make a letter like that, on your board.

The little 'a' is a small circle with an upright, with a tail to it; you might fancy it a fish, with its tail turned up.
"Now, write each of those, twelve times." So he continued with the first six letters.
"That will be as much as you will remember, at first," he said.

"Now we will begin spelling with those letters, and you will see how they are used.

You see, it is a mixture of the sounds of the two: 'b a' makes ba, and 'b e' be, 'c a' ca, 'da' da, 'd e' de, and so on.