Two: A Backward Scholar
I used to go to school just two months in the summer, and two in the winter, but was a backward scholar until 15 or 16 years of age, when I began to make some proficiency in English grammar and arithmetic; but I am not half taught in common spelling-book lessons up to this day…I was a tall, spiddle-shanked boy. My height is one i…
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