gain had recourse to his brother's books, to which he betook himself with in- tense application, and (to quote again from the article to which we have referred) before the crack of his wagon-whip, and his shrill voice at the plough, had died away in the ears of his neighbors, 'H e was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.' Soon after this he entered the office of the Clerk of the Common Pleas Co