"I'd reverse the usual process, Mac," I said. "Usually the teacher
begins with Chaucer and works forward to Dickens; I would begin with
_Comic Cuts_ and _Dead-wood Dick_ and work back to Chaucer."
"Oh, do be serious for once," he said impatiently.
"I am quite serious, Mac," I said. "The only thing that matters in
school work is interest, and I know from experience that the child is
interested in _Comic Cuts_ but not in the _Canterbury Tales_. My job
is to encourage the boy's interest in _Comic Cuts_."