I had also arrived to some little diversions and amusements, which made the time pass a great deal more pleasantly with me than it did before—first, I had taught my Poll, as I noted before, to speak; and he did it so familiarly, and talked so articulately and plain, that it was very pleasant to me; and he lived with me no less than six-and-twenty years.
J'avais, comme je l'ai déjà dit, appris à parler à mon Poll; et il le faisait si familièrement, et il articulait si distinctement, si pleinement, que c'était pour moi un grand plaisir de l'entendre. Il vécut avec moi non moins de vingt-six ans: combien vécut-il ensuite? je l'ignore.