CHAPTER VI.

YOUNG JOHN BULL. ‘n

Mr. Cramer was a wealthy manufacturer.
The village of Cramersville had rapidly sprung
up around the cotton factories, which gave
employment to hundreds of operatives. Mr.
Cramer’s own pleasant house was situated
upon the bank of the same stream which
turned the mills, at a mile’s distance from
them, where the bright river glided along,
unvexed by wheels or dams. |

He had but two children, George and Ada;
to their education Mrs. Cramer devoted herself
with constant assiduity and praise-worthy
patience.

Sir John Framingham, by his last will and
testament, left his only son to the guardianship