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brace of uncles, have furnished me with names enow.—How many do they come to?

Names enough, no doubt, for any one but a German Prince. What school dost thou attend?

None, sir.

Who teaches thee to read and write?

Any body,—who has most time and most patience.

But art thou not to be put to school?

Yes, Sir, when aunt Letty can make up her mind, whether the old floggum way, or the Pestilozi way, or the Hamiltonian fashion, is best for my learning; and whether a high situation, or a warm situation, or an eastern exposure, or a western exposure, is best for my health; and whether three hundred schoolfellows, or fifty schoolfellows, or twenty schoolfellows, fagging or no fagging, be best for my morals.

Ha! ha! ha! I will not ask whose nephew thou art. And thou hast a pretty sister too.