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Show ALPHABETICAL CURIOSITIES. I i The protean nature of the vowel pounds is familiar to all. A few amusing examples will show that tho consonants aro nearly as bad : B makes a road broad, turns tho Otir to a bear, and Tom into a tomb. C makes limb climb, hanged changed, a lover clever, and transports trans-ports a lover to clover. D turns a bear to a beard, a crow to a crowd, and makes aimer danger. F turns lower regions to flower regions. H changes tight to height K makes now know. L transform? a paar info peirl. N turr.e a line into linen, a crow to a crown, and makes one none. P metamorphoses lumber into plumber. Q of itself hath no significance. S turns even to cevtn, makes hove to shove, and word a sword, a pear a spear, makes eUughlcr of laughter, and curiously changrs havir-t; a hoe to shaving a hhoe. T makes a bough bought, turns here to there, alters one to tone, and transforms the phrase "allow hi-j own" lo "talbw thin lowu." W d rs weil, 0, g., hoc are whose, are bsccriics ware, on w.;ri, omen RfT-cn, to pop;, vie view; it mnkfa arm warm, and turns hat into what? Y turns fur into fury, a man to many, to io a toy, a rub to a ruby, ours tc yours, mid a lad to a Udy. |