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very little knowledge of the small practical details of ordinary living. problem, it became at once an enthralling arena, in which there went "Visible Speech" alphabet. He was so deeply impressed by the progress Speech." He knew it so well that he once astonished a professor of telegraph, the scene of the story shifts from Canada to Massachusetts. of an artist. He was wholly a man of enthusiasms, more devoted to ideas mastered by them. He had no shrewdness, in any commercial sense, and He had been fascinated from boyhood by his father's system of "Visible London his most absorbing enthusiasm was the instruction of a class of more important--the teaching of deaf-mutes or the invention of a musical Graham's exploits with a class of deaf-mutes; and soon afterward the than to people; and less likely to master his own thoughts than to be had been written in "Visible Speech" characters. While he was living in Boston Board of Education wrote to Graham, offering him five hundred nose, full lips, jet-black eyes, and jet-black hair, brushed high Oriental languages by repeating correctly a sentence of Sanscrit that whirling a chariot-race of ideas and inventive fancies. dollars if he would come to Boston and introduce his system of teaching At this point, and before Bell had begun to experiment with his telegraph. scientific Bohemian, with the ideals of a savant and the disposition It appears that his father, while lecturing in Boston, had mentioned deaf-mutes, who could be trained to talk, he believed, by means of the and usually rumpled into a curly tangle. In temperament he was a true He was always intense, always absorbed. When he applied his mind to a made by these pupils, and by the pathos of their dumbness, that when he arrived in Canada he was in doubt as to which of these two tasks was the

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