he took, occasional literature that he found around the house or magazines that he could purr loin and heap would copy out of the letters and practice it that way. and then also, pick up audibly the stories that people told within the household. now, this is what hannah bond did. and hannah bond was in the fortunate circumstance to be in a charmed circle of the most literary atmosphere you could be in. in the town of murfreesboro, north carolina where there are two female institutes and some of the students who boarded there lived and she served them on the wheeler plantation. so she had this charmed circumstance to let her budding literacy really grow. and acommresh what she was able to accomplish. the report today tie read, those students who lived on, in the wheeler mansion, were forced to, was part of their schooling, to memorize literary passages. and so, hannah was hearing these literary passages outloud.