I took a good deal o’ pains with his eddication,…

I took a good deal o’ pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. It’s the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

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The elder Weller, on the rearing of his son. Chapter 20.

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