article_snippet.sent: At 15, Henry Bates was working 13 hours a day, six days a week, as a hosiery apprentice.
article_snippet.sent: Fortunately, that didn't prevent Henry Bates from learning Greek, Latin, French, Drawing and Composition at the local Mechanics' Institute in Leicester, or from developing a passion for natural history.
article_snippet.sent: In one village, Henry Bates was amazed to come across a man whose mud-hut contained a library of well-thumbed Latin classics.