a week; but finding this beyond his means he hired a room in a garret at 2s.

6d., which was as much as he could afford out of his scanty earnings.
The first job he was put to, was the setting-up of a large poster-bill--a kind of work which he had been accustomed to execute in the country; and he knocked it together so expertly that his master, Mr.Teape, on seeing what he could do, said to him, "Ah! I find you are just the fellow for me." The young man, however, felt so strange in London, where he was without a friend or acquaintance, that at the end of the first month he thought of leaving it; and yearned to go back to his native city.

But he had not funds enough to enable him to follow his inclinations, and he accordingly remained in the great City, to work, to persevere, and finally to prosper.

He continued at Teape's for about two years, living frugally, and even contriving to save a little money.
He then thought of beginning business on his own account.

The small scale on which printing was carried on in those days enabled him to make a start with comparatively little capital.