of the tyrannical baron behind the castle walls. The struggle for liberty, with

gunpowder as its aid, wrecked empires, and built up a new era for all mankind."

 

In a moment more you have gotten back to your outline and the day is saved.

 

Practising exercises like the above will not only fortify you against the death

of your speech when your memory misses fire, but it will also provide an

excellent training for fluency in speaking. _Stock up with ideas._

 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

 

1. Pick out and state briefly the nine helps to memorizing suggested in this

chapter.

 

2. Report on whatever success you may have had with any of the plans for memory

culture suggested in this chapter. Have any been less successful than others?

 

3. Freely criticise any of the suggested methods.

 

4. Give an original example of memory by association of ideas.

 

5. List in order the chief ideas of any speech in this volume.

 

6. Repeat them from memory.