That is the way she feels after being entirely freed from her stammering—­after learning to talk freely and fluently without difficulty, hesitation or fear-of-failure.

And here are the words of a young man who has just found his speech:  “The Bogue Cure is marvelous.  It is just like making a blind man see.  It is remarkable.  The sensation of being able to talk after stammering for twenty-five years is wonderful.”

And another young woman—­this time from Missouri: 

“That six weeks was the beginning of life for me.  All my life I have had a dread of trying to speak which made life most unpleasant.  I do not have it now—­I love to meet people.”

The joy of perfect speech: 

The wonderful exhilaration of being able to say anything you want to say whenever you want to say, to whomsoever you desire to speak.

“I can talk”—­that sums it all up.  With that assurance comes the feeling of the innocent man freed from a long term in prison—­the sense of completeness and wholeness and ability, the feeling that you are equal to others in every way, that you can compete with them and talk with them and associate with them on a plane of equality.

Such is the Joy of Perfect Speech!!

To know that the haunting fear is gone—­that the shackles have fallen away, the chains are broken.

To know that you are free—­delivered from bondage.

What a feeling—­what a sensation—­

Living itself is worth-while.  Life means more.  The sun shines brighter, the grass is greener, the flowers are more beautiful while friends and relatives seem closer, kinder and dearer than ever before.

The Joy of Perfect Speech!

No words can paint the picture, no tongue describe the lofty feeling of elation which crowns the man or woman or boy or girl who has stammered and has been set free.

CHAPTER II

HOW TO DETERMINE WHETHER YOU CAN BE CURED

You can either be cured of your trouble—­or you cannot.  If you can, why should you go about hesitating, stumbling, sticking, stammering and stuttering?

Why should you deny yourself the privileges of society, the advantages of opportunity, the fruits of success—­if you can be completely and permanently cured of the trouble which handicaps you and holds you back?

Why should you live a half life as a stammerer, if you can be cured and live the complete, joyous, happy, overflowing life?

Why should you be content with failure or half-success if the triumphant power to accomplish, the masterful will to succeed is right within your grasp?

Why should you continue to stammer if you can be cured?

The answer is, you should not.

The first step, therefore, is to determine definitely and accurately whether you are in a curable stage of your trouble and whether you can be completely and permanently cured.