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become an uſeful citizen. Let me know whatever buſineſs your inclination leads you to, and I ſhall look out immediately for a proper maſter: but, before you become apprenticed, it behoves you to be very diligent; you ſhould read with propriety, write well, and underſtand accounts perfectly; pay particular attention to your ſpelling and arithmetic. I deſire an anſwer to this by return of poſt, without being either previously read or corrected by your maſter, that I may hereby judge of the progreſs you are making.
I am your affectionate father,
The Son's anſwer.
Dear and Honoured Sir,
In obedience to your requeſts, you may depend upon my diligence and attention, it being the chief of my ambition to be bound as ſoon as poſſible, and become a man of buſineſs. I confeſs myſelf partial to the employments of a Bookſeller and Stationer: ſhould my father endeavour to procure ſuch a maſter for me, I would ſtrain every nerve to render myſelf a worthy apprentice, and as duty demands, a grateful ſon. William.
The Father to his Son, when bound.
My dear William,
AS I have now ſatisfied your wiſh, in procuring you the deſired maſter, I hope you will be mindful of the advice I gave you the
