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ivy; or, you can see yourself wearing ivy on your wrist instead of
a watch.
# 1 (tie)-fountain pen. Picture yourself wearing a gigantic
fountain pen instead of a tie, or you might see yourself writing
with your tie, instead of a fountain pen.
# 10 (toes) -telephone. See yourself dialing with your toes, or,
you pick up the telephone, but it turns out that you're holding
your toes. (Probably talking to a heel.)
Now-take a piece of paper, number it from one to ten, and try
to fill in the objects in order, without looking at the book. When
you come to #1, just picture your peg word, tie, and the
ridiculous picture of you wearing a fountain pen instead of a tie
will come back to you immediately. So you know that # 1 is
fountain pen. When you picture Noah, you will see him on a
television set instead of an ark; so you know that # 2 is television
set.
You will remember them all quite easily. The wonderful part
about it, is that you also know them out of sequence. You can
see, of course, that it makes no difference. You can also call
them off backwards-just think of the peg word for # 10 (toes)
and work up to "tie."
You should now be thoroughly amazed at your own ability.
But wait! Why not memorize twenty-five objects instead of only
ten? Well, at the end of this chapter you will find the peg words
for numbers 11 through to 25. Please learn those just as you
learned the first ten. When you know them perfectly, try this on
your friends. Have them number a sheet of paper from one to
twenty or twenty-five, or as many as you wish to showoff with.
Then have him call out any of those numbers, haphazardly, and
then name any tangible object. Ask him to write that object
alongside the number called. Have him do that until every
number has an object next to it. Now call them right back to him
from # 1 right down to the last one. Then have