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If the parish would like him to learn a right pleasent trade, in a good 'spectable chimbley-sweepin' bisness,' said Mr Gamfield, 'I want a 'prentis' and I am ready to take him.'

When the boy is worth a hundred pounds to me, am I to lose what chance threw me in the way of getting safely, through the whims of a drunken gang that I could whistle away the lives of! And me bound, too, to a born devil, that only wants the will and has the power.