There was never a(n) 3 problem in Miss Bessie’s classes.We didn’t dare to trouble a woman who knew about the Battle of Hastings and could also play the piano and 4 Shakespeare and Milton.
Miss Bessie knew that my family couldn’t afford to buy a newspaper.She knew we didn’t 5 own a radio.Still,she 6 me to look out for my 7 and find some ways to 8 what’s going on in the world. 9 I became a delivery boy who delivered newspapers.I 10 made a dollar a week,but I got to read a newspaper every day.
Miss Bessie noticed things that had nothing to do with schoolwork but were vital to a youngster’s 11 .Once a few classmates made fun of my 12 overcoat.As I was leaving school,Miss Bessie 13 me on the back of that old overcoat and said,“Carl,never worry about what you don’t have.Just make the most of what you do have—a(n) 14 .”
Among the things that I didn’t have was 15 in the little wooden house.But because of her 16 ,I spent many hours beside a kerosene lamp(煤油灯) reading Shakespeare’s works.Miss Bessie introduced me 17 a wonderful world of poems and stories.She led me to 18 that I could write poems as well as Shakespeare.
So I read 19 Miss Bessie told me to,and tried to remember the things she insisted that I store.Years later,her encouragement finally led to that lovely day when Miss Bessie dropped me a note 20 “I’m so proud to read your article in The Times.”
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