would almost be
*
tear in tissue overlay (detail, inverted)
Short Account of the Tōkyō Blind and Dumb School / Rō-a Gakkō (Tokyo, Japan) (1903)
Harvard (Gutman) copy, digitized April 9, 2007
same, at archive.org
to utter in despair that reading and writing would almost be useless for the blind
p 28
tags:
blind; obscurity; rounds