[50] This Society, which was thus founded more than sixty years ago, has existed ever since. Many hundreds of pounds have been raised by successive generations of the pupils of Hill Top, Hazelwood, and Bruce Castle. Why should not every school in the country have its Benevolent Society?
[51] This officer, I believe, kept the punches with which the number that each boy bore in the school was stamped on certain articles of his clothing.
[52] See page 112.
[53] “By this institution, successive committees of boys (generally, indeed, presided over by a master, but still free in action) must have disposed of little less, perhaps more, than four thousand pounds.”—Prefatory Memoir.
[54] “Essays by a Birmingham Manufacturer,” Vol. II., p. 187.
[55] Emilius. Book II.
[56] Prefatory Memoir.
[57] Prefatory Memoir.
[58] “The ammunition with which these poor fellows were to overturn the government was kept in an old stocking.”
[59] The passage quoted begins, “Deep-toned the organ breathes,” and ends, ‘He smiles on death.’