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