office-fires

Updated: May 4, 2025

They had cleaned lithographic stones, the finger-nails stained for weeks with colored inks; they had packed hardware; they had driven a pen far into the night on space work for the daily papers; they had carried a dinner-pail to and from his lodgings to the factory two miles away where he had worked very little in this pail some of the time; they had posted ledgers, made office-fires, swept out stores anything and everything that his will compelled, and his necessities made imperative.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Fortunes of Oliver Horn