How to Talk (Or Primary Lessons in the English Language), 1882, With Excellent Endpapers and Energetic Hand-coloring black pottery ocarina Okada at the Shijonawate Police

Okada at the Shijonawate Police Station in Osaka to Lieutenant Fulton

She makes me think a bit of Laura Dern in Wild at Heart

Plus some other letters it's a bit hard to decipher

Loss around one eye as evident and old repair/repainting around the other I believe

or something else entirely

How to Talk (Or Primary Lessons in the English Language), 1882, With Excellent Endpapers and Energetic Hand-coloring black pottery ocarina Okada at the Shijonawate PoliceI purchased this one for the "HOW TO TALK" handwritten on the inside cover that alone did it for me. But I quite like what looks like a musical staff on the opposite page, too, as if to suggest that there are other ways to communicate! The book is indeed titled How to Talk (Or Primary Lessons in the English Language) by W. B. Powell, published by E. H Butler and Co., Philadelphia, 1882. Lots of useful lessons inside and lots of good illustrations too,