It was important that the speech should be published at once; and Mr.Walter immediately set to work upon it.

He first translated the document; then, assisted by one compositor, he took his place at the type-case, and set it up.

To the amazement of one of the staff, who dropped in about noon, he "found Mr.Walter, M.P.for Berks, working in his shirt-sleeves!" The speech was set and printed, and the second edition was in the City by one o'clock.

Had he not "turned to" as he did, the whole expense of the express service would have been lost.

And it is probable that there was not another man in the whole establishment who could have performed the double work--intellectual and physical--which he that day executed with his own head and hands.
Such an incident curiously illustrates his eminent success in life.