FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1887, Page 3

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.

RISING IN THE WORLD.

Toward the middle of tbe last century a little ragged boy named Saunders made his appearance at the door of an attorney's office at Clement's Inn, London. He was cast upon the world in absolute want; he knew nothing of his parents; he had not a friend, and he know of no roof beneath which he had a right to lay his head. He asked for the opportunity to do errands for a crust and a coyer in return. The attorney found him bright and prompt and employed him, and the boy proved to be faithful and earnest in the discharge of auch bueinees as was given him to do. By and by the boy, when he bad been admitted to sleep in the office, expressed a desire to learn to write. The attorney rigged him a low desk in a far corner, and set him copies, and was pleased also to assist him at times by personal direction. Tbe boy developed a bold, clear, and beautiful hand, and by the time he was 15 he had become a correct and rapid writer. He was now transferred to the inner office and set at the work ot writing: important legal papers. This gave him an insight into and a taste for legal lore, and he studied hard— studied co hard and to euch good purposo that in time he came to afford his employer sound and valuable counsel in important matters His diligence was untiring, his faithfulness unswerving, and his ambition unchecked. He worked his way up to the bar, and became one of the moat eminent and effective practitioners of his time ; and this man, whose entrance into the struggle* of life had been from bo low and unpromising a station, by a proper uee of the fortunate qualities inherited, became, upon the death of Pembeitan, fcord Cb,ief Justice of England.