My father had previously taught me the alphabet, in the spelling book, before I had left the mill.

After I became religious, I would carry my father's New Testament to church, and always try to get to meeting in time to hear the preacher read a chapter before sermon.

If he named the chapter before reading it, I would soon find it.

In this way, I gathered much information in pronouncing many hard words in the Scriptures.
It was a long time before I learned the meaning of the numeral letters put in the Bible over the chapters.

I had often seen them in the spelling book running alongside a column of figures; but no one ever told me that they were put there for the same use as the figures..