READING EXERCISES
IN STENOTYPY.
The Lord's Prayer.
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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Lord's Prayer written in full requires that the letter keys and spacer be struck 283 times; whilst according to Stenotypy only 116 taps are necessary.
The following extracts will immediately represent to the eye the advantages of Stenotypy over ordinary typewriting.
From Addison's "Tattler."
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I chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer, and took a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows while the green was new, and the flowers in bloom. As at this season of the year every lane is a beautiful
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