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But the tray which Rollo bore was his passport. Thereafter, they all trooped to the table, and Chillingworth sat at the head, and from the foot St. George watched the city editor break bread with the familiar nervous gesture with which he was wont to strip off yards of copy-paper and eat it.
The reporter, shrewdly, suggested that some of Stuart's political ideas might be saleable newspaper material, handed him a pencil and some copy-paper. The boy, again flattered by this subtle suggestion that he was a natural-born writer, covered sheet after sheet of the paper.
A little more urging satisfied the rest of Stuart's scruples and he walked out from the office into the streets of Havana tingling with pleasure to his very toes. This was the first money he had ever earned and it fired him with enthusiasm to become a writer. As soon as he had left, the reporter looked over the sheets of copy-paper, covered with writing in a boyish hand. "Not so bad," he mused.
He was forced to take care of his locker, his desk, his clothes, his shoes; to protect his ink, his books, his copy-paper, and his pens from pilferers; in short, to give his mind to the thousand details of our trivial life, to which more selfish and commonplace minds devoted such strict attention thus infallibly securing prizes for "proficiency" and "good conduct" while they were overlooked by a boy of the highest promise, who, under the hand of an almost divine imagination, gave himself up with rapture to the flow of his ideas.
But that has nothing to do with how you happen to be using a style exactly the reverse of your own." Queed had heaved a great sigh. The article occupied three pages of copy-paper in a close handwriting, and represented sixteen hours' work.
Here you have dictionaries, copy-paper, paste, and Professor Lee assures me you have brains all the necessary ingredients for successful lexicography. We are to have some rules printed to-morrow, and in the meantime I trust I've made myself clear. The main thing" he bent down and spoke it solemnly "is not to infringe the copyright."
Only one person sat in all the long files of the work-tables, littered with copy-paper and disarranged newspapers; a dark young giant with the discouraged and hurt look of a boy kept in after school. All this Banneker took in while the managing editor was disposing, usually with a single penciled word or number, of a sheaf of telegraphic "queries" left upon his desk.
He dashed down to the office-manager, poked a sheet of copy-paper at him, and yelped: "Say, Nat. Read that and tell me just what you think of it. I'm going to put some literary flavor into the Gas-bag even if it does explode it. Look see.
I suppose them ducks at Washington weakened. If they give me collector, here's my slate." Corkey produces a long list of names, written on copy-paper. "I bet she don't budge an inch," he remarks, as he hears the north wind and waves pounding at one end, and the engine pounding at the other. "Needn't be afraid, pard. Sometimes they go out in Georgian Bay and burn some coal.
Hand me some copy-paper there, and go right on with your work while I unbosom my pent-up Uticas." He meditated a moment, wrote rapidly for half an hour, and rose with a hurried glance at his watch. "Here's a little squib about the college that may serve as a space-filler. I must fly for an engagement. I'll try to come down to-morrow afternoon anyway, and if you need anything to-night, 'phone me.
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