Capitolo 62
mills,--happy-go-lucky and disobedient boys especially."
"I think that he is a happy-go-lucky boy" and disobedient, said Oliver.
[The illustration: it said "He made a very soft place."]
"Yes, but it is his/her adversity, rather than his/her guilt" answered Jonas.
"His/her adversity?" Repeated Oliver.
"Yes", said Jonas; the situation of "his/her father is so, that is a lot
unlucky for him. I expect me that he is very unhappily situated to house, in
many respect."
"As?" Said Oliver.
"Because, in the first place", said Jonas, "him alive, I am said in a great,
and the beautiful house."
"Yes", said Oliver.
"And then", continued Jonas, "Your aunt that I have felt, is a very excellent
woman, and it has a lot of society."
"Well", said Oliver.
"And then", continued Jonas, "they can buy some thing that he wants Josey, for
toys."
"Yes", said Oliver; "he told me he had a swinging-horse. But I don't do
you call that being unlucky."
"It is very fortunate for his/her father and mother but some kind of the life
it is generally unlucky for his/her/their child. You see, if a man has been
industrious him, when he was a boy, and you/he/she has started to be a good person
man of business, and to acquire a lot of ownership, and he/she builds a
good house, and it has many books and trips, it is very well entirely
for him. He can very often bear him but it the loots his/her children."
"Because he/she spoils his/her children?" Asked Oliver.
"In the first place, it does them conceited and vain,--not always, but
often. The children of rich men are very often conceited. They brings
best suits that of the other boys, and it has more books and more beautiful
toys; and so they becomes vain, and he/she thinks that they is many
important, when, in fact, they owes every thing to their fathers.
"Then, besides", continued Jonas, "they doesn't form the good habits of
industry. Their fathers don't make them work, and so they doesn't acquire
some adorns of industry and patience and the perseverance."
"If I was a man, and it ever had so many money", said Oliver that "I would earn