I not only claim to be able to do this for you, I back it up with a past record of success in treating hundreds of cases similar to your own.  Like cures like.  What has cured others like you, will cure you.  But I don’t ask you to risk a single penny upon even that evidence and proof.  The moment you enroll in the Bogue Institute, I will issue to you and place in your hands, a written Guarantee Certificate, over my own signature, binding me to cure you of stammering or refund every cent of the money which you have paid me for tuition fee, and asking you only to follow the easy instructions given under the Bogue Unit Method.

You are to be the sole judge as to whether or not you follow instructions.

I will leave it entirely to you to decide.  All I ask of you is full opportunity to do my best for you and absolute honesty, such as you expect and will receive from me.

I want to be absolutely fair with you—­I want to cure you as I have cured myself and hundreds of other stammerers.  I do not want a dollar of your money unless I have given you a dollar’s worth of benefit in return.  I would not keep a penny of the money that you might have paid me for cure of your stammering unless I had actually cured you, provided, of course, that you had followed the instructions which anybody of ordinary intelligence over eight years of age can easily follow.

I have no fear of your dealing dishonestly with me.  I know enough about human nature to know that all you want is to be cured—­and you understand that to be cured you must co-operate with me to that end.  I can cure your stammering only with your co-operation—­ just as a music teacher can make a pianist of you only with your co-operative and sincere effort.  Therefore, I ask only that you follow my instructions carefully and faithfully—­and I guarantee to bestow upon you the same gift of Perfect Speech that I have bestowed upon hundreds of now-happy men and women—­and I put that guarantee in writing over my personal signature.

CHAPTER IV

THE CURE IS PERMANENT

No one who stammers should put any faith in a cure for his trouble unless the results are known to be permanent.  A temporary cure is no cure at all and should be avoided, for it is merely a means of wasting money.

The Bogue Unit Method brings about not only a complete but a permanent cure.  The secret of its success as far as permanency is concerned, lies in the fact that the basic cause of the trouble is removed at its very source, the wrong methods rooted out and the correct methods installed in their place.

Once this process is completed and the cure effected, the cure is permanently insured, because its very cause is gone.  You cannot stammer without a cause—­everyone understands that.

The proof of the permanency of the cure is attested by the many letters from those who were here ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.  A woman cured at the Institute ten years ago writes: