He had gone to the primary school, where, as his children tell us, he did not show himself "an apt scholar, being slow in mastering the alphabet, and surpassed even by his little sister Elizabeth." During his stay with Deacon Bartlett the first time, he was sent three months to the grammar-school, and now on his return to this good friend, a few more weeks were added to his scant school term.

They proved the last of his school-days, and the boy went forth from the little brick building on the Mall to finish his education in the great workaday world, under those stern old masters, poverty and experience.

By and by Lloyd was a second time apprenticed to learn a trade.

It was to a cabinetmaker in Haverhill, Mass.

He made good progress in the craft, but his young heart still turned to Newburyport and yearned for the friends left there.