They were very tolerant of anything that I wanted to bring home if it was an animal. And they started to buy me books. I didn’t add that. My mother, my father assigned my mother to teach me how to spell. And what they were doing was the, it was a new spelling method. I, my wife remembers the name of it. It was, you’re supposed to look at the word and match it with the sound. Whereas my mother had learned the phonetic spelling method where you sound out each vowel and consonant and that that’s how you arrive at the spelling and the pronunciation. Well, she taught me that. And I was getting As in my spelling test, and if I missed one, I would be really upset with myself.
