The Blueback Speller

My stepfather discovered that I had a fine a financial value and so when the school opened he decided that he could not spare me from my work. The decision seemed to cloud my every ambition, made all the more severe by reason of the fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from School mornings and afternoons despite this disappointment. However, I determined that I would learn something anyway and applied myself with greater earnestness than ever to the mastering of what was in the blueback speller. "I have owned many kinds of caps and hats, but never one of which I felt so proud as Of the cap made by two pieces of cloth