And that's just what I will do.

I will get up a book of conversational Latin--enough to make a Common Language for every-day use." And in point of fact that was what old Joel was doing, for four or five weeks afterwards.

He had Theodora and Catherine copy out page after page of it--as many as twenty pages.

He wanted us each to have a copy of it; and for a time at least, he intended to have it printed.
A few days ago I came upon some of those faded, yellow pages, folded up in an old text book of AEsop's Latin Fables--the one Tom and I were then using; and I will set down a few of the sentences here, to illustrate what Master Pierson thought might be done with Latin as a universal language.
Master Pierson's Universal Language in Latin, which he named _Dic_ from _dico_, meaning to speak.
1 It is time to get up.

= Surgendi tempus est.
2 The sun is up already.