Nature and Art

had finished their breakfast at their house in London, a servant broug

fying dignity with which he never failed to address h

he haughty one of his master, "he did not know; but tha

, no doubt," crie

"and bid him send up word who

n board a ship; his captain sent him, and his errand i

have I to do with a boy? I expe

lve or thirteen," r

se," said the dean. "Let m

glance, he had so perfect a recollection of the hand, as to open it instant

a Island

seen one another; but I hope not so long, that you have qu

was, the misfortune of losing the use of my right hand by a fall from my horse, which accident robbed me of most of my friends; for I could no longer entertain the

upon the whole, I do not know that the savages were much to blame-we had no business to invade their territories! and if they had invaded England, we should have done the sa

I may have ever given you in all the time we lived so long together. I know you have often found fault with me, and I dare say I have been very often to blame; but I here solemnly declare that I never did anyt

appearance of complaint, the uninformed islanders think it is all my obstinacy, and that I will not entertain them with my music, which

very of strength in my hand; and I have no doubt but that they

l is lying at a small distance from the island, I have entrusted a faithful negro to take my child to the ship, and del

ome to you, I have no doubt but you will receive him; yet excuse a poor,

care, have been by this time a good scholar, but you know I am no scholar myself. Besides, not having any books here, I have only been able to teach my child by talking to him, and in all my conversations with him I have n

their faults, in order to give him a true conception and a proper horror of them. At the same time I have taught him to love, and to do good to his neighbour, whoever th

indulgences which he was never likely to obtain. He has learnt all that I have und

everity, be amended of all his faults; and though you will find he has many, yet, pray, my dear brother William, call to mind he has been a dutiful and an affectionate

speak to him of me and let him know, that for twelve years he was my sole comfort; and that, when I sent him from me, in order to save his

r five lines which (with his name) were so much blot