“I know ‘Our Father,’ and ‘Now I lay down to sleep,’ and I believe that is all.”
“How old are you now, Jack?”
“I am three years older than Virginia; she, I heard my mother say, was six the other day,—then I suppose I’m nine.”
“Do you know your letters?”
“Yes, some of them; I learnt them on the boats.”
“But you cannot read?”
“No, not a word.”
“Has your mother ever told you of the Bible?”
“Not me; but I’ve heard her tell Virginia about it.”
“Don’t you ever go to church?”