es aint a bit better. Though
'e's scarcely able to walk 'e can ride like a jockey, an' needs more
mendin' of 'is clo'se than any six ordinary boys. Miss Flora, too,
would be just as wild if she weren't good and bidable, w'ich is 'er
salvation; an' the baby--oh! you wouldn't believe it! didn't I catch
that hinfant, only the other day, tryin' to throw a summerset in its
bed, in imitation of Master William, an' yesterday morning I caught
Master Charles trying to teach it to 'ang on to the clo'se-rope in the
nursery by its toes! It's an awful trainin' the poor things is
gettin'--an' the only comfort I 'ave in 'em is, that their dear mother
do constantly teach 'em the Bible--w'ich condemns all sich things,--an'
she _do_ manage to make 'em fond o' wisitin' an' considerin' of the
poor."

To which observations Jemima, holding up her hands and gazing at her
bosom friend in sympathy, would reply that her own sentiments was
hidentically simular, that things in general was to her most amazin',
and that there was no accountin' for nothin' in _this_ life, but that
w'atever came of it she 'oped the family would live long an' 'appy in a
world, w'ich was, she must confess, a most perplexing mixture of good
and evil, though of course she wasn't rightly able to understand or
explain that, but she was sure of this anyhow, that, although she was by
no means able to explain 'erself as well as she could wish, she knew
that she wished well to every one who stuck to the golden rule like Mr
and Mrs Osten.

With which sentiment, good reader, we shall conclude this chronicle of
the life and adventures of Wandering Will, and respectfully bid you
farewell.

THE END.

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