"Slow. Bad," returned the old man impatiently. "It's hard at my time of life."
"It would be easier to be taught by some one," said my guardian.
"Aye, but they might teach me wrong!" returned the old man with a wonderfully suspicious flash of his eye. "I don't know what I may have lost by not being learned afore. I wouldn't like to lose anything by being learned wrong now."

"Slow. Bad," returned the old man impatiently. "It's hard at my time of life."
"It would be easier to be taught by some one," said my guardian.
"Aye, but they might teach me wrong!" returned the old man with a suspicious flash of his eye.
"Wrong?" 