"Can you spell?"
"Oh, yes."
"Can you read?"
"Oh, yes."
"What books did you learn from?"
"Please, sir, I never had a book."
"Then who was your schoolmaster?"
"I never went to school at all."
The gentleman stared, for it seemed very strange that a boy should be able to read and spell, and yet never had a master.
"Then however did you learn?" he asked.