I am a little boy, nine years old. I live in London, and go to school. I can read and

I am a little boy, nine years old. I live in London, and go to school. I can read and write, and I have learned something of arithmetic. I have a brother, who is older than me, and he has been ill, so that I have had to stay at home and nurse him. My father and mother are poor, but honest; and they have told me I must not learn to be a thief. So I resolve to be neither a thief nor a liar; but I will tell the truth, all over the world.