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PREFACE.
The writer has to apologise for the frequent use in the following pages of the pronoun "I." It is used for the sake of clearness in expounding the method of teaching, and also to mark his responsibility for certain developments of the Gouin method not found elsewhere.
PEADAR MAC ḞIONNLAOIĊ
Aṫ-Cliaṫ, Duiḃlinne,
18 Mí Meaḋon-Ḟoġṁair 1902.
