Dear little Margery saw how good and wise Mr. Smith was. She thought it
was because he read so many books.
Soon Margery wished, above all things, to learn to read. She would
borrow books from the school children and sit down and read and read.
Very soon she could read better than any of her playmates.
Margery took such delight in her books that she wished everybody else
could read, too, so she formed this plan of teaching very little
children how to read.
First, she made letters out of bits of wood with her knife. She worked
and worked until there were ten sets of the small letters:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
and six sets of the large letters: