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So he kept on looking about, asking casual questions, listening. In the language of the street he was getting wise. Incidentally he enjoyed himself. The battle ground had been transferred to Paris. The pen, the typewriter, and the press dispatch, with immense reserves of oratory and printer's ink, had gone into action.

Thus I was born and brought up and grew to manuscript's estate in a little Middle-Western town, on a rented typewriter. One day shortly after this I was packed up with great care and very carefully addressed, and under my parent's arm I boarded an interurban car.

They hunted up shady nooks and went to sleep; but promptly at four they would be at the office, ready for barter. Spurlock had found the typewriter, oiled and cleaned it, and began to practise on it in the night. He would never be able to compose upon it, but it would serve to produce the finished work. Above the work-table was a drop-light kerosene.

It is difficult to see how the rapidly increasing number of people in the United States could have found employment without the typewriter, the automobile, and the numerous varieties of electrical application.

Reginald, however, had closeted himself that day in his studio busily writing. Only the clatter of his typewriter announced his presence in the house. There was no chance for conversation or for obtaining the precious manuscript of "Leontina." Meanwhile Ernest was looking over his papers and preparing everything for a quick departure.

Her movements were not calm and self-contained as one by one she removed the paper bags from her typewriter. "So silly!" she sputtered to herself. What were the men in this office, anyway? College freshmen? Hanging paper bags all over her things every time she stepped out of the office and just because one of her friends happened to be in the paper bag business!

I showed her some of my penmanship, but she assured me the manuscript was in another hand. I ran home, and demanded the original manuscript from Bagley. 'Oh, certainly, he said, and fished out a manuscript in his own writing. He had copied even my interlineations and erasures, to give his manuscript the look of an original draft. This was the copy from which the typewriter had worked.

Imagine Fergus getting a screed from a staff man in longhand!" The reporter chuckled at the thought. "Why, I believe the old red-head would take a trip down to the West Indies just to have a chance of saying what he thought. No, son, you've got to learn to tickle a typewriter!"

When a manuscript goes to the press to be set up in this way, the copy is given to the keyboard operator who sets it up on a machine which looks much like a typewriter. Instead of writing letters, however, the machine punches tiny holes in a strip of paper which is wound on a roll.

Doctor" this to the tall thin man who had sat beside him in the run-about "will you go upstairs with Queensmead and make your examination? Where's the jury? Pendy" this to the young man with the typewriter and attaché case "get everything ready and swear in the jury. Galloway will show you the room. What's that?