By Mark Twain
ReadOasis Step 2
(Part 3)

“And there – oh, it was terrible. Mistakes, fearful mistakes – he never did anything that was right – nothing but mistakes. But, you see, nobody knew the secret of how stupid he really was. Everybody misunderstood his actions. They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence. They did, honestly!

“His smallest mistakes made me cry, and shout, and scream, too – to myself, of course. And what kept me in a constant fear was the fact that every mis...