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As the visitor enters, a lad goes out with a roll of manuscript in his hand, and the editor looks up from his monotonous task of proof-reading, for he has that duty also to perform. Whatever he is doing, some one is certain to call and break off the thread of his thought.
My father was a man who hid a great deal of tenderness and humour under a very stern exterior, and I felt that it was my duty in his presence to go through my share of the proof-reading with a grave and business-like countenance. I approached one couplet with terror, for I knew beforehand that it would break me down. "As on my way I then did trod The lark did roar his song to God."
The wisest and ablest were the most patient and grateful, like Mrs. Stowe, under correction; it was only the beginners and the more ignorant who were angry; and almost always the proof-reading editor had his way on disputed points. I look back now, with respectful amazement at my proficiency in detecting the errors of the great as well as the little.
I was to sift all the manuscripts and correspond with contributors; I was to do the literary proof-reading of the magazine; and I was to write the four or five pages of book-notices, which were then printed at the end of the periodical in finer type; and I was to have forty dollars a week. I said that I was getting that already for less work, and then Mr. Fields offered me ten dollars more.
And a man of your education, sir, might turn his knowledge to account in proof-reading. Not that there's much scope for that sort of thing, sir, in my little business. But it's just an idea we might keep in mind. There's no knowing what might come of it. Now I'm not going to omit the business part, sir.
After the task of proof-reading came a reaction of high spirits which expressed itself in the most amusing letter Irving ever wrote: "BRIGHTON, August 14, 1824. "My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea. "I forget how the song ends, but here I am at Brighton just on the point of embarking for France.
It seemed possible to spend this fund only for the relief of the most primitive wants of food and shelter on the part of the most needy families. Initial text entry and proof-reading of this chapter were the work of volunteer Terri Perkins.
Initial text entry and proof-reading of this chapter were the work of volunteer Judi Oswalt. The next January found Miss Starr and myself in Chicago, searching for a neighborhood in which we might put our plans into execution.
Initial text entry and proof-reading of this chapter were the work of volunteer Jill Thoren. That neglected and forlorn old age is daily brought to the attention of a Settlement which undertakes to bear its share of the neighborhood burden imposed by poverty, was pathetically clear to us during our first months of residence at Hull-House.
"Let us give her a rap over the knuckles, and disgust her with the business," said the brothers Cointet. One of the pair, the practical printer, spoke to Cerizet, and asked him to do the proof-reading for them by piecework, to relieve their reader, who had more than he could manage.
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