David Livingstone Centre.

"At ten the boy went into the cotton-mills as a piecer, from which time he maintained himself, and found money for books such as only Scotch peasants are in the habit of buying voluntarily. Out of his first week's wages he bought Ruddiman's "Rudiments," and from that time pursued the study of Latin with his usual steadfastness. His factory work began at six a.m. and lasted till eight p.m. when Davie went to his Latin, as soon as he had had his tea, until ten with the schoolmaster provided for the work-people by their employers, and afterward at home till midnight, or until his mother put out his candle.* But though he thus became able to read his Virgil and Horace easily before he was sixteen, his chief delight was in science." Extract from "The life of David Livingstone" (Open Library)

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