teen. Youve ty s, eand book-keeping?

    `No, said tom, rateringly. `I ions. But Mr Stelling says I e a good s my ing, added tom, laying on table a copy of t erday.

    `As good, ts good. But, you see, t  get you a better place ts. And a copying clerks a cicle. But w  schen?

    Mr Deane  occupied ion, and ion of  forward in expensive schools.

    `e learned Latin, said tom, pausing a little beto assist in; and t year I did tin and one in Englisory; and Euclid; and I began Algebra, but I felt it off again; and o  of, Englisry, and oric, t half.

    Mr Deane tapped  in tion of many estimable persons ed of o speak raserial in ion  if it  of it. About Latin  t in case of anot o put a tax upon Latin as luxury muc telling at all on tment. But, for ral. On t of acquirements gave  of repulsion toom.

    `ell,  last, in ratone, `youve  t be pretty strong in em.  you better take up some line wheyll come in handy?

    tom coloured and burst out, h new energy,

    `Id rat  of t sort, uncle. I dont like Latin and t kno as us kno: besides, I   to be t sort of person. I so enter into some business er t credit for o keep my moter.

    `Aleman, said Mr Deane,  tendency to repress youtout and successful men of fifty find one of t duties, `ts sooner said than done.

    `But didnt you get on in t om, a little irritated t Mr Deane did not enter more rapidly into  you rise from one place to anoties and good conduct?

    `Ay, ay, sir, said Mr Deane, spreading tle,