F. “Choose,” said this Friend, “thy way in life, and I 200
Will means to aid thee in thy work supply.”
He will the army, thought this guardian, choose,
And there the sense of his dishonour lose.
Humbly he answer’d—“With your kind consent,
Of your estate I would a portion rent,
And farm with care”——
“Alas! the wretched fruit
Of evil habit! he will hunt and shoot!”
So judged the Friend, but soon perceived a change,