"I guess we've read enough sight more than some folks that has had a good deal more chance to read.

Fanny and me have taken books out of the library full as much as any of the neighbors, I rather guess." "We've read every single thing that Mrs.Southworth has ever written," said Fanny, "and that's sayin' considerable." "And all Pansy's and Rider Haggard's," declared Eva, with triumph.
"And every one of The Duchess and Marie Corelli, and Sir Walter Scott, and George Macdonald, and Laura Jean Libbey, and Charles Reade, and more, besides, than I can think of." "Fanny has read 'most all Tennyson," said Eva, with loyal admiration; "she likes poetry, but I don't very well.

She has read most all Tennyson and Longfellow, and we've both read _Queechee_, and _St.Elmo_, and _Jane Eyre_." "And we've read the Bible through," said Fanny, "because we read in a paper once that that was a complete education.

We made up our minds we'd read it through, and we did, though it took us quite a while." "And we take _Zion's Herald_, and _The Rowe Gazette_, and _The Youth's Companion_," said Eva.
"And we've both of us learned Ellen geography and spellin' and 'rithmetic, till we know most as much as she does," said Fanny.
"That's so," said Fanny.

"I snum, I believe I could get into the high-school myself, if I wasn't goin' to git married," said Eva, with a gay laugh.