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He managed to buy forty or fifty of these little books of his-to-ry. Another way that he had of learning was by seeing things with his own eyes. His father took him to see car-pen-ters at work with their saws and planes. He also saw masons laying bricks. And he went to see men making brass and copper kettles. And he saw a man with a turning lathe making the round legs of chairs.
What little money he got he used to buy books with. He read the old story of "Pil-grim's Prog-ress," and liked it so well that he bought all the other stories by the same man. But as he wanted more books, and had not money to buy them, he sold all of these books. The next he bought were some little his-to-ry books. These were made to sell very cheap, and they were sold by peddlers.
"But a printer ought to know a good many things," said Mr. Bliss. "Have you been to school much?" "No," said Horace. "I have not had much chance at school. But I have read some." "What have you read?" asked Mr. Bliss. "Well, I have read some his-to-ry, and some travels, and a little of everything." Mr. Bliss had ex-am-ined a great many schoolteachers.
There were no type-writ-ers in those days. It was hard work to write his-to-ry without good eyes. But Pres-cott did not give up. He had a man to read to him. It took him ten years to write his first book. When Prescott had finished his book, he was afraid to print it. But his father said, "The man who writes a book, and is afraid to print it, is a cow-ard." Then Prescott printed his book.
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