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Title: Robinson Crusoe
In Words of One Syllable

Author: Mary Godolphin

Release Date: November, 2004 [EBook #6936]
Posting Date: May 31, 2009

Language: English

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ROBINSON CRUSOE

IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE

By Mary Godolphin

PREFACE.

The production of a book which is adapted to the use of the youngest
readers needs but few words of excuse or apology. The nature of the work
seems to be sufficiently explained by the title itself, and the author's
task has been chiefly to reduce the ordinary language into words of one
syllable. But although, as far as the subject matter is concerned, the
book can lay no claims to originality, it is believed that the idea
and scope of its construction are entirely novel, for the One Syllable
literature of the present day furnishes little more than a few short,
unconnected sentences, and those chiefly in spelling books.

The deep interest which De Foe's story has never failed to arouse in the
minds of the young, induces the author to hope that it may be acceptable
in its present form.

It should be stated that exceptions to the rule of using words of one
syllable exclusively have been made in the case of the proper names
of the boy Xury and of the man Friday, and in the titles of the
illustrations that accompany this work.

ROBINSON CRUSOE.

IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE.

I was born at York on the first of March in the sixth year of the reign
of King Charles the First. From the time when I was quite a young child,
I had felt a great wish to spend my life at sea, and as I grew, so did
this taste grow more and more strong; till at last I broke loose from
my school and home, and found my way on foot to Hull, where I soon got a
place on board a ship.

When we had set sail but a few days, a squall of wind came on, and on
the fifth night we sprang a leak. All hands were sent to the pumps, but
we felt the ship groan in all her planks, and her beams quake from stem
to stern; so that it was soon qui