...estate. At those years I was by no means a favorite with anybody. I made an excellent English scholar, and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age. I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days. too. I owed much to an old woman...

...but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in was...