A CLEVER BOY.

Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 3

A CLEVER BOY.

"A little hoy named Arthur used to go with his father every day to a place where a band practised music, though he was only seyen. Now, Arthur was so clever and loved mxisic 1 so much that before he was nine years old he could play many of the instruments which the grown-up bandsmen played. , Arthur could sing too, and one day he sang a song called <'With Verdure Clad" so sweetly that a gentleman got him a place in the choir at thd i Chapel Royal, which is the church that ; Queen Victoria went to when, .she stayed in London. j Arthur was three years in the choir, I and often when the other choir hoys were playing at games he would spend the time writing little pieces of music ' | of his own. One of these pieces of music was called ah anthem, because it could bp played on the organ in church/ and' it was so very good, though such a little boy had done it all by himself, that it was sung by the choir in the Chapel Royal. "When the chief man of the Chapel Royal got to know that it was a choir boy who had written it, he sent for him and gave him some money. "You are a clever little boy," said . the chief man, "and I am sure you I will become famous." He was quite right, for the boy's last name was Sullivan, and he wrote lots of music tunes when he grew up, and Queen Victoria: made him a knight, and so he was afterwards called Sir Arthur Sullivan.