She had
attained a greater command of language than most children of her
age. What a contrast between these 'other days,' as she calls
them, and the days which followed, when hearing and sight were
completely gone, and gradually the senses of speech and smell
went, too! After the varied instruction of the blind school the
little girl had advanced so far as to make the rest of her study
comparatively easy. The extent of her vocabulary is not
definitely known, but it numbers at least 700 words. Reading,
which was once an irksome task, has become a pleasure to her. Her
ideas of locality and the independence of movement are
remarkable, and her industry and patience are more noticeable
from day to day. She has great ability, and is in every respect a
very wonderful child."
According to recent reports, in the vicinity of Rothesay, on the
Clyde, there resides a lady totally deaf and dumb, who, in point
of intelligence, scholarship, and skill in various ways, far
excels many who have all their faculties. Having been educated
partly in Paris, she is a good French scholar, and her general
composition is really wonderful. She has a shorthand system of
her own, and when writing letters, etc., she uses a peculiar
machine, somewhat of the nature of a typewriter.
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