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   • Lorem ipsum 123 456 789 foo bar


   • Lorem ipsum 123 456 789 foo bar


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   • Lorem ipsum 123,456,789 foo bar


   • Lorem ipsum 123, 456, 789 foo bar

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 a 123 456 789    a 123456789        a 123 456 789
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 Column 1c        Column 2c          Column 3c
 c 123456789      c 123 456 789      c 123 456 789
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 Column 1d        Column 2d          Column 3d
 d 123456789      d 123 456 789      d 123 456 789
 d 123 456 789    d 123456789        d 123 456 789
 d 123,456,789    d 123, 456, 789    d 123456789


I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in        on amid the general rage and turmoil of the ten parts
Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper           of speech, he turns over the page and reads, "Let the
of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language.        pupil make careful note of the following exceptions."
He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while       He runs his eye down and finds that there are more ex-
he said my German was very rare, possibly a "unique;"           ceptions to the rule than instances of it. So overboard
and wanted to add it to his museum.                             he goes again, to hunt for another Ararat and find an-
                                                                other quicksand. Such has been, and continues to be,
If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art,
                                                                my experience. Every time I think I have got one of
he would also have known that it would break any col-
                                                                these four confusing "cases" where I am master of it,
lector to buy it. Harris and I had been hard at work on
                                                                a seemingly insignificant preposition intrudes itself into
our German during several weeks at that time, and al-
                                                                my sentence, clothed with an awful and unsuspected
though we had made good progress, it had been accom-
                                                                power, and crumbles the ground from under me. For
plished under great difficulty and annoyance, for three
                                                                instance, my book inquires after a certain bird – (it is
of our teachers had died in the meantime. A person
                                                                always inquiring after things which are of no sort of con-
who has not studied German can form no idea of what
                                                                sequence to anybody): "Where is the bird?" Now the
a perplexing language it is.
                                                                answer to this question, – according to the book, – is
Surely there is not another language that is so slip-shod       that the bird is waiting in the blacksmith shop on ac-
and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.       count of the rain. Of course no bird would do that, but
One is washed about in it, hither and hither, in the            then you must stick to the book. Very well, I begin to
most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has            cipher out the German for that answer.
captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest


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