s she, "it was
exceeding well; but, as my resolution is to do something for him, I
desire you will, if possible, take him away again from that place, where
he works so hard, for I cannot bear to see the child work so very hard
for his bread, and I will do something for him that shall make him live
without such hard labour."

He smiled at that. "I can, indeed," says he, "take him away, but then I
must lose my L20 that I gave with him."

"Well, sir," said Amy, "I'll enable you to lose that L20 immediately;"
and so she put her hand in her pocket and pulls out her purse.

He begun to be a little amazed at her, and looked her hard in the face,
and that so very much that she took notice of it, and said, "Sir, I
fancy by your looking at me you think you know me, but I am assured you
do not, for I never saw your face before. I think you have done enough
for the child, and that you ought to be acknowledged as a father to him;
but you ought not to lose by your kindness to him, more than the
kindness of bringing him up obliges you to; and therefore there's the
L20," added she, "and pray let him be fetched away."

"Well, madam," says he, "I will thank you for the boy, as well as for
myself; but will you please to tell me what I must do with him?"

"Sir," says Amy, "as you have been so kind to keep him so many years, I
beg you will take him home again one year more, and I'll bring you a
hundred pounds more, which I will desire you to lay out in schooling and
clothes for him, and to pay you for his board. Perhaps I may put him in
a condition to return your kindness."

He looked pleased, but surprised very much, and inquired of Amy, but
with very great respect, what he should go to school to learn, and what
trade she would please to put him out to.

Amy said he should put him to learn a little Latin, and then merchants'
accounts, and to write a good hand, for she would have him be put to a
Turkey merchant.

"Madam," says he, "I am glad for his sake to hear you talk so; but do
you know that a Turkey merchant will not take him under L400 or L500?"

"Yes, sir," says Amy, "I know it very well."

"And," says he, "that it will require as many thousands to set him up?"

"Yes, sir," says Amy, "I know that very well too;" and, resolving to
talk very big, she added, "I have no children of my own, and I resolve
to make him my heir, and if L10,000 be required to set him up, he shall
not want it. I was but his mother's servant when he