About this story
Chores in the shop teach caution before ambition, and a fellow foundling, Timothy Oldmixon, trades his own history for the surname the record gave you. Then a well-dressed woman starts watching both shop windows for days, and finally enters to ask your name, and who gave it to you.
How it opens
The Foundling Hospital's account gave you the name Japhet, a letter left with you, and no known parentage.
Foundling GovernorYou are old enough for apprenticeship, and Mr Cophagus requires a strong shop boy.
Leaving institutional rules offered work without answering the question attached to your birth.
Foundling GovernorYour surname is Newland, taken from Abraham Newlands's signature on the note sent with you.
Choose
Ask whether any token or note arrived with you as an infant.
Ask how the fifty pounds sent with you will be used when you leave.