HARD SPELLING

 HARD SPELLING 

IT  is said that an Inspector, who was examining a School at Ipswich, gave this piece of doggrel for dictation. It is so hard to read, so difficult to understand, and so full of puzzling words to spell, that most scholars would say, 'It wasn't fair':-

'While hewing yews Hugh lost his ewe, 

And put it in the Hue and Cry. 

To name his face's dusky hucs 

Was all the effort he could use. 

You brought the ewe back by-and-bye,

 And only begged the hewer's ewer, 

Your hands to wash in water pure, 

Lest nice-nosed ladies, not a few,

 Should cry, on coming near you, "Ugh!"