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.