AN AMBITIOUS YOUTH.
An exceeding zeal in the cause of cducacation has led Mr Clark, alias Langley, into difficulties from which he will no be able to extricate himself for twelve months. Mr Clark was dissatified with his position in lifof shoemaker, and resolved on bettering himself by taking the office of Inspector of Schools. Without waiting for a formal appointment from Government, he entered op his duties, and commenced a tour of inspcc tion in the schools round the Lancefield district. Ho was delighted to find how he had risen in the social scale. Schoolmasters bowed down before him; members of the Board of Advice vied with each other in showing him attention; J. P.’s felt honored at his accepting their invitations to dinner ; and the bank manager at Lancefield was overjoyed when Mr Clark consented to become his guest for some days. When, however, it was found that Mr Clark had neglected the trifling formality of having his appointment gazetted, an immediate revulsion of feeling took place, and the men who delighted to know him as an inspector thought nothing bad enough for him as a shoeouker. The ambitious youth—he was only twentytwo -is sentenced to jail for twelve months with hard labor.
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Evening Star, Issue 3534, 20 June 1874, Page 3
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205AN AMBITIOUS YOUTH. Evening Star, Issue 3534, 20 June 1874, Page 3
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