228 Life and Times of " The Druid!" 



a week for some months, until the conceit 

 was entirely taken out of me — a very good 

 riddance for a lad of nineteen." Among 

 other defects, he became conscious that his 

 education left much to be desired ; so he 

 went to a night-school, and frequently sat up 

 studying his lessons until the small hours of 

 the morning. This he continued to do 

 during the next eighteen months, and learnt 

 more than he ever did at any other portion 

 of his industrious life. But the quality to 

 which he mainly owed his subsequent rise, 

 was his indomitable perseverance, which he 

 had first acquired when pitted in the wrest- 

 ling ring against a stronger opponent. About 

 that time his friendship with Mr. Crampton, 

 a fellow-worker at Fisher's drapery store, 

 commenced, continuing without intermission 

 until they became partners in Cheapside. 

 Writing in 1827, Mr. Crampton says of him : 

 " I found George Moore at Fisher's, and we 

 became close companions. His friends were 

 my friends, and so intimate were we that, 

 although myself a Yorkshi reman, I seemed 

 to merge into a Cumberland laddie. George 

 was very clannish and patriotic, but I was 



