For that I knew not, with a message came—
“Canst keep accounts?” the man was pleased to ask—
“I could not cash!—but that the harder task.”
“Yet try,” he said; and I was quickly brought
To Lawyer Snell, and in his office taught.
Not much my pay, but my desires were less,
And I for evil days reserved th’ excess.
Such day occurr’d not: quickly came there one, 160
When I was told my present work was done.
My Friend then brought me to a building large,