id: "Come, you may as well give me tenpence;"
but Bentley held out sixpence, and said he would give no more.
Eaton then tried to knock it out of his hand, but instead of his
succeeding, the tart fell and was broke to pieces. Eaton looked
red. "Come," said Bentley, "though you refused so often, perhaps
you may be inclined to take sixpence now." Eaton was not long
determining, but snatched the sixpence and gave me into Bentley's
hands. He carried me directly into his chamber, and having given
me some food, put me on his window seat. I lived very comfortably
with him for a few days; till one day a boy named Smart, who, I
afterwards learnt, was hired by Eaton, opened the window and put
me out. I ran along the tiles, trembling, a great way, before I
saw any window open where I might shelter myself. At last a boy
spied me, and getting up to me with a ladder, I surrendered
immediately. The boy, thinking he could sell me at the school
better than at any other place, went there; and Bentley seeing
me, before any of the boys said what they would give, offered the
boy eighteenpence for me, which he accepted, and left me once more
in good hands. He now took more care of me than ever, intending
to take me home with him at the holidays; but an accident which
happened soon after, made his good intention totally useless. One
of his schoolfellows, named Hawkins, who slept in his room, had,
it seems, long wished for me. He had tried various stratagems,
none of which had turned out to his advantage: at last he thought
of the following. He put his bottle and wash-hand bason in the way
of my cage, so that when Bentley came to take me out, he threw
them down, and broke them into a thousand pieces. Hawkins hearing
the noise came up, and the following dialogue I distinctly heard,
as I sat on Bentley's arm.

_Hawkins._ So, Bentley, you have broke my bason. How could you be
so careless.

_Bentley._ It was rather careless, I must own; but who would have
thought of a bottle and bason being so near a squirrel-cage, as
to be broken when I went to take out my squirrel.

_Hawkins._ Nobody could have thought it; but you should look
before you do things in such a hurry. I suppose you intend to
pay me for it.

_Bentley._ That I would very willingly do, if I had money. If you
will trust me, I will give you my week's pay till the whole debt
is paid.

_Hawkins._ And so I am to stay a month or more, while you pay me
at your leisure. It was all owing