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Das war nicht schwer, denn mein armer Vater schrieb eigentlich eine Kinderhand, fibelgerecht und ganz unausgeschrieben, nur daß die Buchstaben winzig klein, durch überlange Haarstriche jedoch so weitläufig, wie ich es sonst nie gesehen, auseinandergezogen waren, eine Manier, deren ich rasch aufs täuschendste habhaft wurde.
His writing was not, in fact, hard to imitate, for my poor father wrote a childish, copy-book hand, quite undeveloped, its only peculiarity being that the letters were very tiny and separated by long hairlines to an extent I have never seen anywhere else. This mannerism I quickly mastered to perfection.
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