Daily Dose

From One Writer's Beginnings, by Eudora Welty

MOTHER'S DICKENS

"'And here is where I first began to read my Dickens,' Mother said, pointing.  'Under that very bed.  Hiding my candle.  To keep them from knowing what I was up to all night.'
'But where did it all come from?' I asked her at last.  'All that Dickens?'
'Why, Papa gave me that set of Dickens for agreeing to let them cut off my hair,' she said, as if surprised that a reason like that wouldn't have occurred to me."

From Chapter II, Learning to See