The school in which he was placed by his father, was situated in the small village of Workum, and here he passed what would have been called a miserable twelvemonth, by any one of less buoyant spirits than his own; but he was one of those enviable beings who are so well described by Wordsworth, as peculiarly- "Blest with a kindly faculty to blunt The edge of adverse circumstance, and turn Into their contraries, the petty plagues And hind'rances with which they stand beset." And his cheerful endurance was rewarded by a fortunate occurrence about this time, which made an entire change in his situation during the remainder of his stay in Holland.
[Workum, or Warkum, in Frisian, is in the municipality of Nijefurd, in Holland - TT]
