ut-of-the-ordinary cases have been avoided and the common types
dwelt upon with the idea of "giving the greatest good to the greatest
number."

Every reader of this volume who lives today under the constant handicap
of a speech disorder, may well take new hope from the thought that
"What man hath done, man can do"--again!

PART IV

SETTING THE TONGUE FREE

CHAPTER I

THE JOY OF PERFECT SPEECH

If you stammer--if you are afraid to try to talk for fear you will
fail--if you are nervous, self-conscious and retiring because of your
stammering--then you don't realize the Magic Power of Perfect Speech.
You don't realize what perfect speech will mean to you. Listen to
this--from a young woman who stammered--who was cured--and who knows:

"The most wonderful thing has happened to me. What do you think it is!
I have been cured of stammering. You have no idea how different it is
to be able to talk. I just feel like I could fly I'm so happy. Just
think, I can talk I'm so glad, so glad, so glad, it's over. I just feel
like jumping up and down and shouting and telling everybody about it. I
never was so happy in my life--I never was so glad about anything as I
am about this."

That is the way she feels after being entirely freed from her
stammering--after learning to talk freely and fluently without
difficulty, hesitation or fear-of-failure.

And here are the words of a young man who has just found his speech:
"The Bogue Cure is marvelous. It is just like making a blind man see.
It is remarkable. The sensation of being able to talk after stammering
for twenty-five years is wonderful."

And another young woman--this time from Missouri:

"That six weeks was the beginning of life for me. All my life I have
had a dread of trying to speak which made life most unpleasant. I do
not have it now--I love to meet people."

The joy of perfect speech:

The wonderful exhilaration of being able to say anything you want to
say whenever you want to say, to whomsoever you desire to speak.

"I can talk"--that sums it all up. With that assurance comes the
feeling of the innocent man freed from a long term in prison--the sense
of completeness and wholeness and ability, the feeling that you are
equal to others in every way, that you can compete with them and talk
with them and associate with them on a plane of equality.

Such is the Joy of Perfect Speech!!

To know that the haunting fear is gone--that the shackles have