As before stated, we conclude all our speed classes, when a lecture does not intervene, with the reading of the business letters, court and convention pages from a collection of 27 of our little ten-cent printed speed pamphlets. These 27 little pamphlets contain 1100 business letters, 80,000 words court testimony and 80,000 words convention, making 99 printed pages of letters, 103 pages of court and 100 pages of convention-302 pages in all. We have the pages of those speed readers arranged so that certain pages are set for certain sessions.

Thus, beginning with the first Monday morning speed class of each mouth, we find marked for that speed class, the first two pages of letters, first two pages of court and first two pages of convention. Whether we finish reading those first six pages or not at morning speed class, we take for afternoon speed class the next two pages of letters, court and convention, and so on. taking six different pages each speed class-12 each day-which permits us to read new matter daily for a month of 25 day sessions, if a month should be that long. However short of that number we should come, we never fail to start at the beginning of the speed readers on first Monday of each month, and never read at any session any unfinished material of a previous session, always beginning at the proper pages for that session. At night, the contents of these speed readers furnish enough reading to last four months, six pages a night, so we begin on the first night session of January, May and September, with the first two pages of letters, first two pages court and first two pages convention - six pages - and thereafter every night session six other pages, similarly treated.

When third month students become perfect in the 18 days Business Letters of the Shorthand manual, then it is their duty to try to take the speed reader letters verbatim as fast as dictated in speed class, and when they succeed in taking any as quickly as read, they should read them back at once to the teacher in speed class. In reading back these speed reader business letters in speed class, no letter must be read which does not contain 60 to 70 words. There are all sizes of letters in those speed readers - some containing only 20 or 25 words, others 200, though the majority average from 60 to 120 words, and it is only those of 60 and over which will be accepted in reading back letters in speed class. The teacher must be informed by the student that he or she is ready to read just as soon as the teacher has read the last word of a letter and before teacher has begun to read the next letter, for the student must have written the last word immediately after the teacher pronounces it.