nine in the morning
James is a good boy , upright and honourable , and would not tell a lie under any consideration . What is he to do ? If I could afford to send him to a good school it would be a different thing , but that you know I can not do . From nine in the morning , until five in the afternoon , my time is occupied by teaching , and I can not expect , nor do I wish , that he should sit moping indoors all day . He had far better be out in the boats with the fishermen , than be hanging about the place doing nothing . If anything happened to me , before he is started in life , there would be nothing for him but to take to the sea . I am laying by a little money every month , and if I live for another year there will be enough to buy him a fishing boat and nets .