that town, founded by Joseph Lancaster, 2 Quaker. There was sparing the rod and spoiling the child in those days as the head master'of that school had a number of graduated canes which he seems to have been more efficient in using than in teaching, as the boys learnt little there. From all accounts the headmaster was hated and feared by the majority of the boys. William Darwent at the age of ten apparently had had enough of that school, for he decided he would go to work ith his father who was a file cutter and house agent at Charlotte Street, Sheffield. The youth soon became an expert at the trade, and like Robert Morrison the famous missionary to China, always had a book in front of him while he was working. Sometimes it was a Latin, Greek, Hebrew or Syriac grammar. The other people in the same trade could not understand how he mana ged to both work and study at the same time, and wondered at his father allowing him to do it. The father's reply was:—"You go and do better or equal it," showing the
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