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He was a maker of paper at Fitchburg, and he came with a one-horse wagon to Cushing's place and carried away the paper shavings produced in the bindery. Crocker was a lean and awkward man, remarkable for his voice, which could be heard over the larger part of the village.
The folded sheets are next placed in piles or rows, in their numerical sequence, and "gathered" by hand, i. e.: a bindery hand picks up the sheets one by one, with great rapidity, until one whole book is gathered and collated, and the process is repeated so long as any sheets remain.
"Right here in New Haven!" "A volume?" "Yes." I went to my case and produced a book I had sewed it, backed it, bound and tooled it. It was my first job, and I was proud of it. I am proud of it now. It is the best sermon I ever preached. Another day a professor in the Yale Medical School called to have some books bound at the bindery. "Who is that fellow at your bench?" he asked. "Mr.
"Not at all; I'm always glad when I can be of service to any one. You think you'd like to go into a bindery?" "Yes. I've come to the city to get employment, and haven't much choice." "There's no place like the city," remarked the other. "I'd die in the country nothing going on. But you won't stagnate here. When did you arrive?" "To-day." "Have you friends here?" "No.
Meanwhile, Mr. Sanderson had come home from the bindery, and seemed surprised to find Katie sitting so quietly by his sick child.
She's from the country, and wants to get into some good establishment. She talked about a store, but I think a bindery is better." "A great deal better," was replied by Miss Peter. "I've tried them both, and wouldn't go back to a store again on any account. If I can serve your friend, I shall be most happy." "Thank you!" returned Flora; "you are very kind."
There are girls who make fans, who work in feathers, who pick over and assort rags for paper warehouses, who act as 'strippers' in tobacco shops, who make caps, and paper boxes, and toys, and almost all imaginable things. There are milliners' girls, and bindery girls, and printers' girls press- feeders, bookfolders, hat-trimmers.
In preparing for the bindery any new books, or old ones to be re-bound or repaired, lists should be made of any convenient number set apart for the purpose, prompt return should be required, and all should be checked off on the list when returned.
"Let them be fried, then. Come, we'll go up stairs. Anybody there?" "Two or three only." "Any girls from the bindery?" "Yes; I think so." "Oh. I'm glad of that! Want to see some of them. Come, Miss Bond." And Pinky, after a whispered word to the attendant, led the way to a room up stairs in which were a number of small tables.
"The people expect startling things ... and, as the winds of genius blow where they list when they refuse to blow in the direction required, divine is the art of buncombe," he jested. I suppose this applied to his musician-prodigy, a girl of eight, who worked, in the afternoons, in the bindery.
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