Ah! how beautiful that is!
PROF. PHIL. And the vowel _i_ by bringing the jaws still closer
to one another, and stretching the two corners of the mouth towards
the ears; _a, e, i_.
MR. JOUR. _A, e, i, i, i, i_. Quite true. Long live science!
PROF. PHIL. The vowel _o_ is formed by opening the jaws, and
drawing in the lips at the two corners, the upper and the lower;_
o_.
MR. JOUR. _O, o_. Nothing can be more correct; _a, e, i, o, i,
o_. It is admirable! _I, o, i, o_.
PROF. PHIL. The opening of the mouth exactly makes a little circle,
which resembles an _o_.
MR. JOUR. _O, o, o_. You are right. _O_! Ah! what a fine
thing it is to know something!
PROF. PHIL. The vowel _u_ is formed by bringing the teeth near
each other without entirely joining them, and thrusting out both the
lips whilst also bringing them near together without quite joining
them; _u_.
MR. JOUR. _U, u_. There is nothing more true; _u_.
PROF. PHIL. Your two lips lengthen as if you were pouting; so that, if
you wish to make a grimace at anybody, and to laugh at him, you have
only to _u_ him.
MR. JOUR. _U, u_. It's true. Oh! that I had studied when I was
younger, so as to know all this.
PROF. PHIL. To-morrow we will speak of the other letters, which are
the consonants.
MR. JOUR. Is there anything as curious in them as in these?
PROF.
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