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I say all this used to interest me, for I had no companions, and went to

no school, but spent my time with reatly she must have suffered often and often, when,

broken down in health and spirit, suffering froreat sorrow, she

used to devote all her ti me

Our apartarden,

and very often, as I sat there watching it, I used to wish that I could

be as other boys were, running about free in the fields, playing cricket

and football, and learning to swi shut up there with

my mother

Perhaps I was a selfish boy, perhaps I was no worse than others of e I knoas very fond of entle, and tender withthe most tedious lessons pleasant

by the way she explained the me when I orried over

some arithmetical question about how many men would do so much work in

such and such a number of days if so many men would do the same work in

another number of days

These sums always puzzled me, and do now; perhaps it is because I have

an aardly shaped brain

Sometimes, as we sat over the lessons, I used to see a curious pained

look spread over my mother's face, and the tears would come in her eyes,