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His mother died, his father married again, whereupon the boy was sent into the country boarded out as we say and kept there till his sixteenth year, when he was brought back to London and apprenticed to-a tailor one John Quick "a quiet, peaceable man, not cruel to servants, which liked me very well." Muggleton took to his trade and pleased his master.
For some time they struggled for a name which should set forth the principles for which the school stood, and finally they fixed on that of "To-A Gakko." Translated into unpretentious English, this means "Eastern Asia School"; the idea was that the school stood for no narrow methods of education, and that its influence was to extend beyond the confines of Japan.
The person who saw all this affirmed, at the same time, that there was a dearth of cloth about the skirts of the integument which stood him instead of a coat. He bore no bad resemblance, he said, to-a moulting fowl, with scanty feathers, running before a gale in the farm yard.
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