Working with his father, the village shoemaker, during the day and ‘working at my books... throughout the small hours and till morning came,’ he won a scholarship to train as a teacher.
Ac yntau’n gweithio gyda’i dad, crydd y pentref, yn ystod y dydd ac ‘yn gweithio gyda’m llyfrau... drwy’r oriau mân a than doriad gwawr,’ fe enillodd ysgoloriaeth i hyfforddi’n athro.