I was brought up on Dobell.

And Parsings' Grammar?
Ye don't seem to be a using Parsings' Grammar either ?" "No," said the master, relenting still more as he glanced at Uncle Ben's perplexed face with a faint smile.
"And I reckon you'd be saying the same of Jones' 'Stronomy and Algebry?
Things hev changed.

You've got all the new style here," he continued, with affected carelessness, but studiously avoiding the master's eye.
"For a man ez wos brought up on Parsings, Dobell, and Jones, thar don't appear to be much show nowadays." The master did not reply.

Observing several shades of color chase each other on Uncle Ben's face, he bent his own gravely over his books.

The act appeared to relieve his companion, who with his eyes still turned towards the window went on: "Ef you'd had them books--which you haven't--I had it in my mind to ask you suthen'.