"She charg'd me," he adds, "_as I valued a Mothers Blessing, to watch over
him, to set good Examples for him, and never to forget that he had lost
his Father_." I religiously confine myself to Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD'S own
words; and think I should wrong all the parties concern'd if in mentioning
this pathetic and successful Admonition, I were to use any other. He came
from Mr. AUSTIN'S 29 _June_ 1781. [Footnote: This date of his coming to
Town is added by Mr. BLOOMFIELD himself since the first Edition.]

Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD then lived at Mr. _Simm's_, No. 7, _Pitcher's-court,
Bell-alley, Coleman-street_. "It is customary," he continues, "in such
houses as are let to poor people in _London_, to have light Garrets fit
for Mechanics to work in. In the Garret, where we had two turn-up Beds,
and five of us worked, I received little ROBERT."

"As we were all single Men, Lodgers at a Shilling per week each, oar beds
were coarse, and all things far from being clean and snug, like what
_Robert_ had left at SAPISTON. _Robert_ was our man, to fetch all things
to hand. At Noon he fetch'd our Dinners from the Cook's Shop: and any one
of our fellow workmen that wanted to have any thing fetched in, would send
him, and assist in his work and teach him, for a recompense for his
trouble."

"Every day when the Boy from the Public-house came for the pewter pots,
and to hear what Porter was wanted, he always brought the yesterday's
_Newspaper_. [Footnote: There was then, neither as a resource for the
exigencies of finance, nor as a Principle of supposed Policy, that unhappy
Check which prevails now on the circulation of _Newspapers_, and other
means of _popular_ Information. L.] The _reading_ of the Paper we had been
us'd to take by turns; but after _Robert_ came, he mostly read for us,...