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 he
began to read in earnest at a farmhouse. He worked every day
from 6 A.M. to 12 P.M. with only an hour's intermission.
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