s likely to find
among the boys of the town.

"My father's desire to please me, rather than any faith he reposed in my
assertions, led him to allow me to do as I pleased in this affair. I
lost no time, therefore, in beginning my course of instruction, and in a
few weeks ascertained that I had an apt pupil, who was determined to
proceed with his education as fast as circumstances would admit. We
were soon able to express our ideas to each other, and in a few months
read together the book out of which I had received so many invaluable
lessons.

"In a short time I became not less proud of, than partial to, my pupil.
I took him through the same studies which I had pursued under the
auspices of our clergyman, and was secretly pleased to find, not only
that he was singularly quick in imbibing my instructions, but displayed
a strong natural taste for those investigations towards which I had
shown so marked a bias.

"Day after day have we sat together discoursing of the great events
recorded in Holy Writ: going over every chapter of its marvellous
records, page by page, till the whole were so firmly fixed upon our
minds, that we had no necessity during our conversations for referring
to the Sacred Book. We found examples we held up to ourselves for
imitation;--we found incidents we regarded as promises of Divine
Protection; we found consolation and comfort, as well as exhortation and
advice; and, moreover, we found a sort of instruction that led us to
select for ourselves duties that apparently tended to bring us nearer to
the Great Being, whose goodness we had so diligently studied.

"My father seemed as much pleased with my successful teaching, as he had
been with my successful learning; and when young Reichardt turned out a
remarkably handy and intelligent lad, to whose assistance in some of his
avocations he could have recourse with perfect confidence in his
cleverness and discretion, he grew extremely partial to him. Dr
Brightwell also proved his friend, and in a few years, the condition of
the friendless workhouse boy was so changed, he could not have been
taken for the same person.

"He was a boy of a very grateful spirit, and always regarded me with the
devotion of a most thankful heart. Often would he contrast the
wretchedness of his previous condition with the happiness he now
enjoyed, and express in the warmest terms his obligations to me for the
important service I had rendered him in rescuing him from th