“All right, sir.”
“He gets up at five o’clock. He will knock at your door, as he comes downstairs. He sleeps on the floor above. Now I want to ask a few questions about other matters. I suppose your education has been neglected.”
“I was to college once,” said our hero.
“How was that?”
“I carried a bundle of books from a bookseller in Nassau{99} Street to one of the purfessors of Columbia College.”
“If that is the extent of your educational advantages, you probably still have something to learn. Have you been to school?”
“Not much. I went to evenin’ school a few times.”
“Can you read and write?”
“I can read a little, but I have to skip the hard words. I ain’t much on writin’.”
“Here is a little book of fairy stories. You can read one aloud to Carrie.”