Last Friday—or may be it was Thursday—I sat at my day's work, writing very plainly so that the printer should see how I meant my words to go into print. In the plainest letters I wrote the word Sudgement." That is the way spell it. It is not everybody's choice: let others do as they will. It passed the printer: it passed the printer's reader who is very gentle with my follies. But one of my readers, at home in his house in the borough of Kensington, would not let it pass. He has not cursed me. He put the blame- on the printer, an innocent man who lathes all my tricks.of spelling. Therefore he sends me his sympathy in two kindly verses: he is sorry that my tale should have been blotted in this-fashion. For he is one of those who spell "judgement" as "judgment," grudging the word that first "e'" which, to my mind, gives it a pretty touch. But the mightiest of.all dictionaries, the New English Dictionary, chooses "judgement" as the better spelling. So do the printers of the Oxford University Press, the pontifis of the trade. So do I: so shall I. There must be heresy and schism in that dropping of the "e.''? And besides, I like to spell the word as judgement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.