from Washington to Cleveland.
The manner in which it is to be mastered is this: Beginning at the top,
try to find in your mind some connection between each word and the one
following it. See how you can at some future time make one suggest the
next, either by suggestion of sound or sense, or by mental
juxtaposition. When you have found this dwell on it attentively for a
moment or two. Pass it backward and forward before you, and then go on
to the next step.

The chain runs thus, the names of the Presidents being in small caps,
the date word in italics:

President Chosen as the first word as the one most apt to occur
to the mind of any one wishing to repeat the names
of the Presidents.
Dentist Presi_dent_ and _dent_ist.
Draw What does a dentist do?
_To give up_ When something is drawn from one it is given up.
This is a date phrase meaning 1789.
Self-sacrifice There is an association of thought between giving
and self-sacrifice.
WASHINGTON Associate the quality of self-sacrifice with
Washington's character.
Morning wash _Wash_ington and _wash_.
Dew Early witness and dew.
Flower beds Dew and flowers.
_Took a bouquet_ Flowers and bouquet. Date phrase (1707.)
Garden Bouquet and garden.
Eden The first garden.
Adam Juxtaposition of thought.
ADAMS Suggestion by sound.
Fall Juxtaposition by thought.
Failure Fall and failure.
_Deficit_ Upon a failure there is usually a deficit. Date
word (1801.)
Debt The consequence of a deficit.
Bonds Debt and bonds.
Confederate bonds Suggestion by meaning.
Jefferson Davis Juxtaposition of thought.
JEFFERSON.

Now, follow out the rest for yourself, taking about ten at a time, and
binding those you do last to those you have done before each time,
before attacking the next bunch.

1 | 2 | 3
----------------------+--------------------+------------------
JEFFERSON | _the fraud_ | _the heavy shell_
Judge Jeffreys | painted clay | mollusk
bloody assize | baked clay | unfamiliar word
bereavement | tiles | dictionary
_too heavy a sob_ | TYLER