HOW I GOT MY LAST JOB. ig5 



on the subject, when my father told him I was 

 most anxious to get the place as his keeper. 



" Tell him," said Mr. Maitland, " that next 

 spring twelve months, all being well, I will take 

 him on." And so I was promised the place 

 two years before I got it. On Lady Day, in 

 the year 1843, I came to Stanstead, Essex, as 

 head-keeper to William Fuller-Maitland, Esq. 

 It was the 25th of March, and I have been 

 there ever since. 



