All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

我父亲付钱让我学的东西，一头是桦树，另一头是字母表。

-- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特