A human boy.

O glorious to be a human boy! And why glorious, my young friend?
Because you are capable of receiving the lessons of wisdom, because you are capable of profiting by this discourse which I now deliver for your good, because you are not a stick, or a staff, or a stock, or a stone, or a post, or a pillar.
O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy! And do you cool yourself in that stream now, my young friend?
No.
Why do you not cool yourself in that stream now?
Because you are in a state of darkness, because you are in a state of obscurity, because you are in a state of sinfulness, because you are in a state of bondage.

My young friend, what is bondage?
Let us, in a spirit of love, inquire." At this threatening stage of the discourse, Jo, who seems to have been gradually going out of his mind, smears his right arm over his face and gives a terrible yawn.

Mrs.Snagsby indignantly expresses her belief that he is a limb of the arch-fiend.
"My friends," says Mr.Chadband with his persecuted chin folding itself into its fat smile again as he looks round, "it is right that I should be humbled, it is right that I should be tried, it is right that I should be mortified, it is right that I should be corrected.

I stumbled, on Sabbath last, when I thought with pride of my three hours' improving.