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164 Telephone Numbers
deal, say, the tailor, butcher, grocer, doctor, or anyone that
can be pictured, just put that person into your association.
For example, the tailor's phone number is FA 4-8862. Just
make an association of tailor—farm—fife—chain. If you're
using my suggestion of not using a peg word for the last
two digits, you could use chin instead of chain. You might
picture the tailor (a man sewing) growing fifes on his farm,
which he plays with his chin. If you like the link idea, sim-
ply link the four items.
Since a tailor, doctor, dentist, etc. can be pictured, all
you have to do is get that picture into your association. If
you want to remember names in conjunction with phone
numbers, you must use the substitute word system as you
learned in Chapter 16. Mr. Hayes' telephone number is
OR 7-6573—you might picture a bale of hay (Hayes) play-
ing an organ (Or 7) in jail (65) while it combs (73) its
hair. If you are using the link idea—link hay to organ, organ
to jail, jail to comb. If you like my last suggestion on how to