char-boy

Updated: May 21, 2025

At times, hand-craft becomes rede-craft, for when the eye is blind the hand takes its place, and the finger learns to read, running over the printed page to find out what is written, as quickly as the eye. In these days, there are too many who look down on hand-craft. They think only of the tasks of a drudge or a char-boy.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885