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His family was very poor and in those days children were not compelled to go to school, so at the age of ten this little boy began to work in a cotton factory as a " piecer. " This was not easy work, and the pay he received was not very heavy, but it helped a little. Almost all of David's education was gained from a night school, where he picked up some knowledge of Latin and Greek. Can you imagine working all day and then going to school for several hours every night? I am afraid he was more a...nxious to obtain his education than a good many boys are today. He was so interested and wished so much to learn that every spare minute he had he would apply himself to his books instead of racing and playing with the other boys. When David Livingstone grew up he studied medicine at Glasgow University and attended a course of lectures on theology ; these interested him so much that he offered his services to the London 105 106 David Livingstone Missionary Society as a medical missionary when he was still a very young man.
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