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snorant and backward, Joe"

"Why, see what a letter you wrote last night! Wrote in print even! I've

seen letters--Ah! and froentlefolks!--that I'll seren't wrote

in print," said Joe

"I have learnt next to nothing, Joe You think much of me It's only

that"

"Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so or be it son't, you must be a common

scholar afore you can be a onco upon

his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can't sit and write his acts

of Parliaun, when he were a unpromoted

Prince, with the alphabet--Ah!" added Joe, with a shake of the head

that was full of un at A too, and worked his way to Z

And I knohat that is to do, though I can't say I've exactly done it"