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Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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id, Say, Harry,come on—lets go out and fly the kite; the wind is just dandy today. So, away the boys went, and before they reached the open lotthree or four other kids had fallen in line, and they went along tohelp have the fun. Now, Harry, you take the kite and run out theretowards that old stump, said John, and when I pull the string, youstop and hold the kite up over your head as high as you can and whenI say ready you let her go. Away went Harry, and he held up thekite. (Let speaker hold up a song book, high.) Are you ready? Yes.*•Well, then, let her go. And with that, along came a gust of windwhich laid hold of that kite and began to climb right up towards the 199 :^/k4-4--i-i-i-T~ ~--f^^ (._--. r----;---h--p--Y---y--y---j---j--T--J^pf\, V 1 PYT r i 1 i \ JT^fi I (___ -f 4i--t--l4-W--i-4--i-4 •Xb^^;?^^ ^ i f i i i i i i i : i i i f : i ! i ! i ; i ! i I 1 t t 1 > 1 • • 1 1 1 1 1 1 ) ■ III ill
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200 sky with it. Higher and higher it went till the kite which was reallyas tall as the boy who owned it, didnt look much bigger than his hatBut Harry kept on letting out the string, till the hat looked like a birdwith a great long tail. (Let speaker here shade his eyes with his handand peer and point steadily up towards the sky and occasionally take apeep at the audience and see the boys and girls also looking up throughthe roof at the kite. The writer has so caught them at it many a time.)Then John looked down to see how much string he had left, and he letout more and more, and when he looked up at the kite again he didntlook at it at all—because he could not see it. It was out of sight! Buthe knew it was up there all right for he felt it pull! Now, I guess this kite story is a fable, because in fables kites cantalk as well as the boys who fly them. So when the kite got up so high,the story says that it began to want to talk, and as there was nobodyup there to talk to, it began to

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