At the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, where youth are boarded, clothed, booked, washed, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries--' 'It IS the gentleman,' observed the stranger, stopping the schoolmaster in the rehearsal of his advertisement.

'Mr Squeers, I believe, sir ?' 'The same, sir,' said Mr Squeers, with an assumption of extreme surprise.
'The gentleman,' said the stranger, 'that advertised in the Times newspaper ?' '-- Morning Post, Chronicle, Herald, and Advertiser, regarding the Academy called Dotheboys Hall at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire,' added Mr Squeers.

'You come on business, sir.

I see by my young friends.

How do you do, my little gentleman?
and how do you do, sir ?' With this salutation Mr Squeers patted the heads of two hollow-eyed, small-boned little boys, whom the applicant had brought with him, and waited for further communications.
'I am in the oil and colour way.