[A Final Reckoning by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Final Reckoning CHAPTER 2: The Poisoned Dog 2/32
Mr.Shrewsbury gives me an excellent account of him, and says that he is far and away the cleverest and most studious of the boys.
I like the lad, and owe him a good turn for having broken in that pony for my daughter; besides, for his father's sake I should like to help him on.
Now, in the first place, what are you thinking of doing with him ?" "I am sure I am very much obliged to you," Mrs.Whitney said.
"I was thinking, when he gets a little older, of apprenticing him to some trade, but he is not fourteen yet." "The best thing you can do, Mrs.Whitney.Let it be some good trade, where he can use his wits--not a butcher, a baker, or a tailor, or anything of that sort.
I should say an upholsterer, or a mill wright, or some trade where his intelligence can help him on. When the time comes I shall be glad to pay his apprentice fees for him, and perhaps, when you tell me what line he has chosen, a word from me to one of the tradesmen in Lewes may be a help.
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