I was then in my 'smart' years, and what I didn"t know about books would

have filled a very large library, and I hadn"t the slightest desire to
know any more
I was then in my 'smart' years, and what I didn"t know about books would
have filled a very large library, and I hadn"t the slightest desire to
know any more. In my youthful mind book-knowledge cut but a small, a
very small, figure, and the school house itself was as bad if not worse
than the county jail.