Thou art now sixteen years old, and hast strength, and it was given thee, my son, for very useful purposes; for it must save from famine your helpless parents and family.

Prepare then this evening to look out for work against to-morrow, and bring home every night what money you earn, for our support.' Having thus instructed him, and settled the rest, I walked down to the common prison, where I could enjoy more air and room.

But I was not long there when the execrations, lewdness, and brutality that invaded me on every side, drove me back to my apartment again.

Here I sate for some time, pondering upon the strange infatuation of wretches, who finding all mankind in open arms against them, were labouring to make themselves a future and a tremendous enemy.
Their insensibility excited my highest compassion, and blotted my own uneasiness from my mind.

It even appeared a duty incumbent upon me to attempt to reclaim them.