converted into beehives, and if one be placed upon the other, there will be a tolerably accurate idea of the figure 8. In the word beehive, are obtained b, h, v; and w may be added, for it is compounded of vv.
p, f. The figure 9 is not unlike a pipe, and as a pipe is seldom used without a puff of smoke issuing from it, we have the p and f in these two words; they are inseparably connected, and cannot easily be forgotten.
s, x, z. The 0 being a round body, it may be compared to a wheel or grinder in a mill; this wheel, when in swift rotation, gives out a hissing sound, and the hissing consonants s, x, z, are attached to the cipher. x is formed from two half circles; and z is the first letter of the word zero.
These letters, and the figures which they are intended to represent, should be impressed strongly upon the memory, as the letters must be converted into words, by the introduction of vowels
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