His schooling certainly had nothing to do with it,for he ran away from home as a small boy,became a hobo,rode in boxcars,slept in haystacks,begged his food from door to door,and learned to read by looking out of boxcars at signs along the railway.

• 他的学校教育，跟他眼前的成功完全没有关系，他在幼年就离家出走，成了一个飘泊流浪者，偷乘火车，睡在草堆上过夜，挨家求乞。由车窗观看铁路两旁广告，让他认识了几个字。