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Young Robert could read but he gabbled so fast: And ran on with such speed, that all meaning he lost. Till one Morning he met M^r. Stops by the way, Who advis’d him to listen to what he should say. Then entering the house, he a riddle repeated. To shew, WITHOUT STOPS, how the ear may be cheated.

M^R. STOPS READING TO ROBERT AND HIS SISTER.

“Ev’ry lady in this land “Has twenty nails upon each hand “Five & twenty on hands & feet “And this is true without deceit.” But when the stops were plac’d aright, The real sense was brought to light.

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