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mother for the higher elements of his home education ; she 

 instilled into his young mind a respect for religion, for the 

 Sabbath, for the church, and for the Christian ministry, which 

 remained with him through life. She taught him to pray and 

 to read his Bible morning and evening. The following inscrip- 

 tion was written on a Bible presented to him at this time. 

 This same inscription he re-wrote on the Bibles which he pre- 

 sented to his own children : — 



•TO TITUS SALT. 



* May this blest volume ever lie 

 Close to thy heart and near thine eye ; 

 Till life's last hour thy soul engage, 

 And be thy chosen heritage.' 



In the year 1813, when in his tenth year, his father removed 

 from Morley, and entered upon the work of a farm at Crofton, 

 three miles from Wakefield. A young ladies' boarding-school 

 kept there was presided over by Miss Mangall, the authoress of 

 Mangalts Questions. At this time he attended a day school 

 connected with Salem Chapel, Wakefield, kept by the Rev. 

 B. Rayson. A letter from one of his schoolfellows contains 

 the following sketch of his appearance at this time : — ' Mr. 

 Rayson gave up the school at Christmas 18 15, from which 

 time it was conducted by Mr. Enoch Harrison, who had 

 for several years been Mr. Rayson's principal assistant, and 

 with whom young Salt remained some time. His father's 

 residence being upwards of three miles from school, Titus 

 generally rode on a donkey, which was left until the afternoon 

 at " The Nag's Head," a small inn near to the school, bringing 

 with him in a little basket his dinner. In person he was tall 

 and proportionately stout, and of somewhat heavy appearance. 

 His dress was usually that of a country farmer's son, — viz. a 



