I’m uncommon fond of reading, too."“Are you, Joe?"“On-common. Give me,” said Joe, “a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!” he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, “when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, ‘Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,’ how interesting reading is!"I derived from this, that Joe’s education, like Steam, was yet in its infancy.
-Charles Dickens
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