the above, you will find no difficulty in repeating them consecutively. The reader who will here fairly test this experiment, will be agreeably surprised to find himself already, in a degree, master of our art.
Take another list of words, equally unconnected:—
| crew | archer |
| tree | pin |
| ape | crystal |
| exodus | rug |
| fire | back |
| leaf | pen |
| star | nose |
| water |
These words may be linked together something after this style:—The crew of a vessel once came upon a tree, among the branches of which was an ape, the only one left since the inhabitants were compelled to make an exodus, owing to fire. This tree had only one leaf, and a solitary star was reflected in a pool of water underneath, beside which stood an archer trying to thrust a pin through a ball of crystal. He had a rug dangling down his back, and a pen through his nose. Here it is necessary, again, strongly to impress upon the student the great importance of making his pictures, in all cases, as vivid as possible before leaving them.
Another simple and more effectual plan of remembering a series of words, is by connecting them with some piece of poetry which you already
