I cs of my life, but I  s only for pleasure and for to all  kno so mucion t of ot I so time wo read.

    I read my first connected story in May, 1887, o ted page t ips.

    As I  study regularly during tion; nor did I read according to rule.

    At first I --quot;readersquot; for beginners, a collection of stories for c t;Our orld.quot; I t  I read til t. Sometimes Miss Sullivan read to me, spelling into my tle stories and poems t sand; but I preferred reading myself to being read to, because I liked to read again and again t pleased me.

    It  visit to Boston t I really began to read in good earnest. I ted to spend a part of eacitution library, and to o bookcase, and take doen or two words on a page.

    ted me; but I took no conscious account of ,  t period, for it retained many o t test clue; and afteralk and e, tences e naturally, so t my friends  t s of many books (in t deal of poetry in til I discovered quot;Little Lord Fauntleroy,quot; andingly.

    One day my teac;t Letter.quot; I  eigtle Pearl, and explained some of t old me t siful story about a little boy ;t Letter.quot; tory ;Little Lord Fauntleroy,quot; and so read it to me t  begin tory until August; t feay at tement t I forgot tence of books. teac to visit some friends in Boston, leaving me for a s time.

    urned almost t to begin tory of quot;Little Lord Fauntleroy.quot; I recall distinctly time and place ing cory. It ernoon in August. e ting toget a s distance from ter lunc ory. As