There was growing within his breast a self-care and a self-reliance.

It was the autumn of 1818, when, so to speak, the boy's primary education in the school of experience terminated, and he entered on the second stage of his training under the same rough tutelage.

At the age of thirteen he entered the office of the Newburyport _Herald_ to learn to set types.

At last his boy's hands had found work which his boy's heart did joy to have done.

He soon mastered the compositor's art, became a remarkably rapid composer.