Still, it is mighty important. In the minds of millions of farm people of the South, cotton and the boll weevil are associated. De first time I seen de boll weevil, He was a-settin' on de square. The ballad is a part of the literature of the Southwest. But I am assigning too many motives of self-improvement to reading.
People read for fun, for pleasure.
The literature of the Southwest affords bully reading. A student in the presence of Bishop E. D. Mouzon was telling about the scores and scores of books he had read. Two of the best educated men I have ever had the fortune of talking with were neither schooled nor widely read. They were extraordinary observers. But here are the books.