I am told that while I was still in (可連讀）long dresses I showed many signs of（可連讀） an eager（可連讀）， self-asserting disposition（應該是短i，聽者像長i縮短的音）.Everything that I saw other people do I insisted upon imitating. At six months I could pipe out "How d'ye," and one day I attracted（tr應該有舌尖滑動的動作）every one's attention by saying "Tea, tea, tea" quite plainly. Even after my illness I remembered one of the words I had learned in these early months. It was the word "water," and I continued to make some sound for that word after all other（可連讀） speech was lost. I ceased （舌頭應再壓住一點） making the sound "wah-wah" only when I （可連讀）learned to spell the word.
They tell me I walked the day I was a year old. My mother had just taken me out of the bath-tub and was holding me in her lap, when I was suddenly attracted by the flickering shadows （聽著有點off）of leaves that danced in the sunlight on the smooth floor. I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them. The impulse gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up（phrasal verb，up應該比take重讀） in her arms.
