Show deserved to rise high joseph a miner and poet ot of northumberland learned to read by committing to memory the appearance ot of the big letters on the placards stuck up on the hoar dings by the pit mouth As a trapper trappen boy in the pit he wrote and elp ciphered hered on the trap door in the intervals when no wagon was passing through and then taught himself grammar and without any education ot of any kind by slow degrees and some keen native instinct he found out and became acquainted with masterpieces ot of literature then he commenced to write and compose lyrics and the day came when the pit man poet numbered among his friends i tenyson Ross ettl durne burne jones willlam morris and lord morley |