The teachers of the other schools in that neighbourhood could give similar examples, for during the winter months there used to be no less than 300 evening scholars under instruction in the different schools.

The Bethesda booksellers could tell a tale that would surprise our English friends.
I have been informed by one of them that he has sold to young quarrymen an immense number of such works as Lord Macaulay's, Stuart Mill's, and Professor Fawcett's; and it is no uncommon sight to find these and similar works read and studied by the young quarrymen during the dinner hour." "I can give," proceeds Mr.Cadwalladr Davies, "one remarkable instance to show the struggles which young Welshmen have to undertake in order to get education.

The boy in question, the son of 'poor but honest parents,' left the small national school of his native village when he was 12 1/2 years of age, and then followed his father's occupation of shoemaking until he was 16 1/2 years of age.

After working hard at his trade for four years, he, his brother, and two fellow apprentices, formed themselves into a sort of club to learn shorthand, the whole matter being kept a profound secret.

They had no teachers, and they met at the gas-works, sitting opposite the retorts on a bench supported at each end with bricks.