en both went to bed about eight o'clock, and got the policeman
to call them up before retiring himself.

"So the struggle went on, until the faithful old schoolmaster thought
that his young pupil might try the examination at the Bangor Normal
College. He was now eighteen years of age; and it was eighteen months
since the time when he began to learn the counties of England and
Wales. He went to Bangor, rigged out in his brother's coat and
waistcoat, which were better than his own; and with his brother's watch
in his pocket to time himself in his examinations. He went through his
examination, but returned home thinking he had failed. Nevertheless,
he had in the meantime, on the strength of a certificate which he had
obtained six months before, in an examination held by the Society of
Arts and Sciences in Liverpool, applied for a situation as teacher in a
grammar-school at Ormskirk in Lancashire. He succeeded in his
application, and had been there for only eight days when he received a
letter from Mr. Rowlands, Principal of the Bangor Normal College,
informing him that he had passed at the head of the list, and was the
highest non-pupil teacher examined by the British and Foreign Society.
Having obtained permission from his master to leave, he packed his
clothes and his few books. He had not enough money to carry him home;
but, unasked, the master of the school gave him 10s. He arrived home
about three o'clock on a Sunday morning, after a walk of eleven miles
over a lonely road from the place where the train had stopped. He
reeled on the way, and found the country reeling too. He had been
sleeping eight nights in a damp bed. Six weeks of the Bangor Session
passed, and during that time he had been delirious, and was too weak to
sit up in bed. But the second time he crossed the threshold of his
home he made for Bangor and got back his "position," which was all
important to him, and he kept it all through.

"Having finished his course at Bangor he went to keep a school at
Brynaman; he endeavoured to study but could not. After two years he
gave up the school, and with 60L. saved he faced the world once more.
There was a scholarship of the value of 40L. a year, for three years,
attached to one of the Scotch Universities, to be competed for. He
knew the Latin Grammar, and had, with help, translated one of the books
of Caesar. Of Greek he knew nothing, save the letters and the first
declension of nouns; but in May