1 Give me your definition of a horse.
2 Whoever expects refinement in me will be disappointed.
3 I pulled through it, though nobody threw me out a rope.
4 All that is difficult to me now, would be so easy then.
5 Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch.
6 He had never thought of going away, when he sent me for it.
7 Let her take it from me, if you like, who have been run away from, myself.
8 She always used to tell me she was sure you would be easier with me than this.
9 But since I have been looking at it, I have been wondering about you and me, grown up.
10 There was no rope-dancing for me; I danced on the bare ground and was larruped with the rope.
11 It made me think, after all, how short my life would be, and how little I could hope to do in it.
12 Let me hear of your running in this manner any more, boy, and you will hear of me through the master of the school.
13 If father was determined to make me either a Prig or a Mule, and I am not a Prig, why, it stands to reason, I must be a Mule.
14 Also, that if you accompany me now, it is understood that you communicate no more with any of your friends who are here present.
15 Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me.
16 But I must go, you know, whether I like it or not; and I had better go where I can take with me some advantage of your influence, than where I should lose it altogether.
17 And, Thomas, it is really shameful, with my poor head continually wearing me out, that a boy brought up as you have been, and whose education has cost what yours has, should be found encouraging his sister to wonder, when he knows his father has expressly said that she is not to do it.
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