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Did you not tell me, a few minutes since, that the boy said his prayers?

True, Madam; but he did so, because I told him he ought to do it, for all good boys did so.

Did he pray in the German tongue?

No; God forbid. Madam, that he should speak to his Creator in such a jargon as that!

You taught him, then, what to say?

To be sure I did. Madam; for, as I said before, the ape and him had both the same learning from that heathenish vagrant, Manhaunslet.

And what has become of the ape?

As soon as little Hugho was so admired by the gentry, as to be sent for to great folk's houses, to show off his balls and his dancing, and all them there pretty motions of his, he understood, somehow or other, that the monkey was not reckoned genteel, and so he sent him on his