There, he lost his right arm in an industrial accident, when his sleeve was caught in a carding machine and the limb was wrenched off at the shoulder.
[3] He was subsequently able to attend Luddenden National School as a free scholar,[2] and then began selling newspapers and tea, which he delivered to his customers on foot.
[2] From 1904 to 1907, the newspaper serialised his A Spring-Time Saunter, about a four-day ramble from his home at Mount Tabor, over the Pennine Moors, to Haworth,[2] taking in such features as Fly Flat Reservoir, Castle Carr and Brontë Waterfalls.
[3] By popular demand,[2] this was published in revised form as a book, A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Bronte Land, illustrated by Arthur Comfort, in 1913.
[2] Eventually, copies were circulated to wounded soldiers from Yorkshire, paid for by the Courier Comforts Fund, and the edition sold out.