A Prodigy.
The town of Felicity, Ohio, is just now enjoying something in the nature of a sensation. There lives in the village an aged colored couple by the name of Bright. With the aged people lives a little grandchild, Lizzie Higgins. Three weeks ago some one sent this four year old child a primer. The child has never attended school in her life, neither had she at any time received private instruction, yet she read the book from beginning to end aloud. So astonished and alarmed were her grandparents when she began to read that they burst into tears, supposing her possessed of some supernatural agency. A few days since the wife of Postmaster Molon, being sceptical, selected a letter from a number, and handed it to her with the request that she read her the address. This she did correctly. Professor Ullery, principal of the public schools, took her to his house and tried his powers in various ways, and he says she both reads and pronounces correctly. The great number of people that are visiting her pronounce her a wonderful child, and no one pretends to account for her faculty of reading without ever having learned to do so. — Cincinnati Gazette.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1917, 18 October 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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204A Prodigy. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1917, 18 October 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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