copy. "Look here, you should slope thus, with a graceful curve."

"Oh, we are very willing to do so, but we cannot," said

Hjalmar's letters; "we are so wretchedly made."

"You must be scratched out, then," said Ole-Luk-Oie.

"Oh, no!" they cried, and then they stood up so gracefully it

was quite a pleasure to look at them.

"Now we must give up our stories, and exercise these letters,"

said Ole-Luk-Oie; "One, two- one, two- " So he drilled them till