Oliver,[13] head of the great manufacturing firm of Oliver Brothers, and W.C.

Morland,[14] City Solicitor, subsequently joined the corps and started in the same fashion.

It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin.

Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
[Footnote 13: Died 1904.] [Footnote 14: Died 1889.] [Illustration: ROBERT PITCAIRN] A messenger boy in those days had many pleasures.

There were wholesale fruit stores, where a pocketful of apples was sometimes to be had for the prompt delivery of a message; bakers' and confectioners' shops, where sweet cakes were sometimes given to him.