Mebbe I'd better begin at the beginnin'.
I ain't never had no advantages.

I've worked pretty hard ever since I was a kid, an' since I've ben to the library, lookin' with new eyes at books--an' lookin' at new books, too--I've just about concluded that I ain't ben reading the right kind.

You know the books you find in cattle- camps an' fo'c's'ls ain't the same you've got in this house, for instance.

Well, that's the sort of readin' matter I've ben accustomed to.

And yet--an' I ain't just makin' a brag of it--I've ben different from the people I've herded with.