My father wanted me to come here at once after he died, but I knew better--I wanted to get sense first.

So I took a place in the Company.

It wasn't all fun.
"I had to keep my wits sharp.

I was only a youngster, and I had to do with men as crafty and as silly as old Polonius.

I was sent to Labrador.
That was not a life for a Christian.