"It would be hard to become a teacher now. You'd be a pupil teacher first, but you've been out of school so long. As for a clerk you'd need more schoolin' too. And an excellent character. So no more stealing and bein' clever and wanderin' about." He had paid for an apprenticeship for Jimmy's older brother, but then, the Cookes had lived on his lands since he was a teenager, and when tragedy had struck, he had felt responsible as their landlord to do something for them. He wasn't going to make any promises to a child he had just met, but if the boy turned out deserving of it, Tobias might help.