This portion of the book is intended for both reading and writing practice, the printed pages being the key to the shorthand engraving opposite them. Students should, therefore, not cease studying these pages until they can both read the shorthand engraving as rapidly as print and write the printed pages from dictation into as precise shorthand as they are herein written by the author.

Before the student begins practicing the exercises found within this portion of the book, the author furthermore desires to state that, while this part is in a great degree intended to perfect students in the proper use of every principle illustrated in the lessons of Part II, yet its primary object is also to give them a concise idea of the manner of Inventing Extemporaneously The Special Abbreviations explained in first paragraph of Page 89 of Part II, while engaged in reporting lectures, sermons, etc. To obtain a complete idea of rapid phrasing and the manner in which this is accomplished, it will be necessary for the student to observe the following rules in making use of this Reader:

1st.- Carefully read and note in the shorthand pages herein, every digression from the long way of writing words and phrases, for which word or phrase signs or abbreviations have not been already learned.

2nd. - Write all the exercises from dictation, afterward comparing your shorthand writing with the original, as stated more fully elsewhere. Rewrite and re-rewrite from dictation until your shorthand writing compares precisely with that in this Reader.

3rd. - Transcribe all your shorthand writing before comparing it with the shorthand plates, always comparing your transcription with the printed key. By this means, many slight but important contractions may be discovered, which otherwise might be overlooked.