1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! cat hooks There is a semi-erased bird

There is a semi-erased bird flying over her head

and cast great shadows

Windsor County

a crease line down the center (I believe incurred before being pasted down)

with a little rust here and there

1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! cat hooks There is a semi-erased birdClearly I've got words and language on my brain this week plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine so here's this lovely, early speller published by Sanborn & Carter, Portland, Maine in 1844. Lovely hand colored title page, then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along. Another one to inspire images as new lines of thinking as one sees sequences