Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Page #4

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Benjamin?

-Benjamin?

-I didn't cheat.

I didn't say you did. What's your score?

Sister Scott! Sister Scott!

I got an A!

I got an A.

Sister Scott! Sister Scott!

I got... Mother!

-I missed you. I missed you.

-I missed you, too.

I know all my times tables.

I got them all right, except for one.

Let me see. I knew you could do it.

I knew you could do it.

Professor Burket,

I'm Mrs. Carson, your new cleaning woman.

-Mrs. Carson.

-Sir?

-The kitchen floor.

-What about it?

It sparkles.

Well, your last cleaning lady

didn't do a very good job.

What I do, I do the best I can.

The last cleaning lady was me.

My late wife was very sick.

I took care of her and not much else.

-I'm sorry.

-Thank you.

Sr.

-Did you read all these books?

-Most of them. Why?

Just curious.

Take the rest of your men off the post.

They can stay with Corporal Dolan's family

in Salt Lake till Barker's gone.

-Yes, sir.

-Come to think of it,

-you better stay there yourself.

-Yes, sir.

-Hey, why'd you do that for?

-What's going on? I was watching that.

You boys watch too much television.

-Not that much.

-No more than everybody else.

Don't worry about everybody else.

This whole world is full of everybody else.

From now on, you're gonna pick 3,

no, 2 pre-selected programs per week.

-A week?

-You're crazy. I mean, this is crazy.

And that's after you finish your homework.

What are we gonna do

with all our free time?

I'm glad you asked. You're gonna go

to the library and pick out 2 books,

and, at the end of the week,

you're gonna hand me a written report

about what you read.

-2 books a week?

-I don't believe what you're saying.

-I can't even read one.

-We cannot possibly survive

-without television.

-Well, you're gonna start now.

Why you waste all that time

watching the TV?

If you used that time to develop

your God-given gifts,

it wouldn't be long before

folks was watching you on TV.

-Man, there's a lot of books in here.

-Shut up, boy. It's a library.

''Hearing the great roar made the young man

wonder if he had chosen wisely.

''Maybe it was a trick.

''Was there really a tiger,

or just a recording of a tiger's roar?

''Maybe there was a tiger

behind the other door,

''and he'd de like

all the other princes before him.''

That's good, Bennie. That's real good.

Mother, what's this word?

I need to get new reading glasses.

Sound it out.

Ag... Ag...

Agriculture. A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E.

-Agriculture.

-excellent, Benjamin.

Kathy. ''Combine.''

Combine. C-O-M-B-I-N-E. Combine.

For a 20-point bonus, here's your toss-up.

You know, several limericks begin,

''there was a young lady from Perth. ''

Limerick is in Ireland.

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