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Updated: May 20, 2025
The door was broken open, the press partly demolished, the imposing-stone overturned, and a quantity of type battered and thrown into the adjacent bay. The contents of some of the cases were "pied" and scattered around the floor. Frames, chases, galleys, composing-sticks and office furniture were thrown together in one confused heap. In a word, the entire office was turned topsy-turvy. Mr.
They don't eat greens and taters where you come from! Oh dear no; not at all! 'That's it, is it? Then, I take vedge. 'If s an extra penny, mind you. You pays on Saturday. The boy turned to Mr. Warr, who made his choice also. A little later a voice said 'Halt! and there was a clatter of composing-sticks laid smartly down on the cases.
But when the opprobrium connected with manual labor has disappeared, when all will have to work with their hands, there being no one to do it for them, then the authors as well as their admirers will soon learn the art of handling composing-sticks and type; they will know the pleasure of coming together all admirers of the work to be printed to set up the type, to shape it into pages, to take it in its virginal purity from the press.
But on unpacking his equipment Colenso found he had not been supplied with an inking-table, composing-sticks, leads, galleys, cases, imposing-stone, or printing-paper. A clever catechist made him an imposing-stone out of two boulders of basalt found in a river-bed hard by.
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