Mr Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom

`WHAT I want, you know, said Mr Tulliver, `what I want, is to give Tom a good eddication: an eddication asll be a bread to him. That was what I was thinking on when I gave notice for him to leave th Academy at Ladyday. I mean to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer. The two years at th Academy ud ha done well enough, if Id meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for hes had a fine sight more schoolin nor I ever got: all the learnin my father ever paid for was a bit o birch at one end and the alphabet at th other. But I should like Tom to be a bit of scholard, so as he might be up to the tricks othese fellows as talk fine and write wi a flourish. It ud be a help to me wi these law-suits and arbitrations and things. I wouldnt make a downright lawyer o the lad - I should be sorry for him to be a raskill - but a sort o engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one othem smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool. Theyre pretty nigh all one, and theyre not far off being even wi the law, I believe; for Riley looks Lawyer Wakem i the face as hard as one cat looks another. Hes none frighted at him. Mr Tulliver was speaking to his wife, a blond comely woman in a fan-shaped cap. (I am afraid to think how long it is since fan-shaped caps were worn - they must be so near coming in again. At that time, when Mrs Tulliver was nearly forty, they were new at St Oggs and considered sweet things.)

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