CHAPTER II.
Mr.Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom "What I want, you know," said Mr.Tulliver,--"what I want is to give Tom a good eddication; an eddication as'll be a bread to him.

That was what I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave the academy at Lady-day.

I mean to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer.

The two years at th' academy 'ud ha' done well enough, if I'd meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor _I_ ever got.

All the learnin' _my_ father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th' other.