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10
THE
SILENT LANGUAGE.
How to Converse and Discourse with any Person, without speaking a word.
This art is performed by the twenty-four letters of the alphabet on your hands and fingers, which you must learn, and then spell the words you intend your lover or friend shall know. The letters are very easily learned, and easy to remember. You must understand that most of the letters are upon the left, made with the finger of the right and left hand; with the fore-finger of the right hand you point to every letter, but sometimes that and the two next fingers make several letters, as you will hereafter find. The vowels are very easy to remember, they being the tops or ends of your five fingers on the left hand, and the Y is formed
