What am I to do with him ?" Mrs.Ellison could make no suggestion; but she, too, disliked the thought of anyone in the village being turned adrift upon the world.
"The very thing!" the squire exclaimed, suddenly "We will make him clerk.

Old Peters has long been past his work.

The old man must be seventy-five, if he's a day, and his voice quavers so that it makes the boys laugh.

We will pension him off.

He can have his cottage rent free, and three or four shillings a week.