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'Tytler's Universal History, in one fat little small-typed volume, very much spoilt by rain, she made a vade-mecum; the 'Annals of the Orient, of Greece, of Rome' with difficulty not easily estimated she worked her way through them. An English Dictionary became a necessity; she had to wait three weeks before she had money enough to purchase the cheapest she could find.
And it was lucky that he did; for when Cis's brief schooldays came to an end, Big Tom took the two textbooks out with him one morning and sold them. The directory was the prized gift of Mrs. Kukor's daughter, Mrs. The directory meant more to Johnnie than ever had Cis's books. He knew its small-typed pages from end to end.
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