He left school at the age of NUMBER@1 , sent out by his father to earn his living in a local gas store for NUMBER@2 NUMBER@3 -LRB- NUMBER@4 -RRB- a week .

He left school when he was NUMBER@1 and got a simple job in a gas store where he earned NUMBER@2 NUMBER@3 -LRB- NUMBER@5 shillings and NUMBER@6 pence , which is NUMBER@4 in modern MISC@1 money -RRB- a week .
