Excerpt from The Measurement of Efficiency in Reading, Writing, Spelling and English<br><br>Betty lived in the South, long, long ago. She was only ten years old, but she liked to help her mother.<br><br>She had learned to do many things. She could knit and sew and spin; but best of all she liked to cook.<br><br>One day Betty was alone at home because her father and mother and brother had gone to town to see a wonderful sight.<br><br>The great George Washington was visiting the South. He was going from town to town, riding in a great white coach trimmed with shining gold. It had leather curtains, and soft cushions. Four milk-white horses drew it along the road.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.