Tobias nodded. "That will be for the school to handle." He knew little about how a board school worked as neither he nor his siblings had attended one. "Ye must be right clever if you are so ahead of your age with so little schooling. Tis a pity..." that was a bit harsh, to remind the boy that he didn't have a family and the financial support that came with it. He started again: "Ye might have become a teacher. Ye might still look into finding a way towards a better job. A clerk or sum't."