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Kimball said I showed as my heart an' my brains was both in the right place, an' then he got up an' shook hands an' told me as he would in confidence remark as he expected to make a very good thing all round for he was gettin' the printin' press awful cheap and Elijah likewise." "When ?" asked Mrs. Lathrop. "Next Wednesday. Elijah's comin' up freight with the printin' press. Mr.
And then the waiter put some little slips of paper before us, one with printin' and one with writin' on it, and a pencil, and sez he, "I will be back when you make out your order." And Josiah took out his old silver spectacles and begun to read out loud, and his voice wuz angry and morbid in the extreme. Sez he, loud and clear, "Blue pints pints of what, I'd love to know?
He says Elijah says set him up the press an' he don't ask no better fun than to live on bread an' water while he jumps from peak to peak of fame, but Mr. Kimball says Elijah's young an' limber an' he shall want the paid-up subscriptions himself afore he begins to transport a printin' press around the country.
Pa hired him as night clerk 'cause he'd worked in a printin' office an' could do printin'. But since Tom got rich he don't like to work, an the bills ain't printed as good as they used to be." "This looks pretty good to me," said Josie, eyeing it approvingly. "I guess, if Tom wasn't goin' to leave, Pa would fire him," asserted Annie, rising from the table.
They was swell bills-of-fare, but Tom claimed he couldn't do so much printin', although that's part o' the night clerk's duty, an' Pa thought it used up too much good cardboard at war-time prices. So now we jus' get out a new bill once a week, an' write the extry dishes on it." "That does very well," said Josie. "Does Tom still do the printing?" "Yes.
Kimball says, if we back him up, we can begin right now to have a paper of our own an' easy get to be what they call a 'state issue. It's easy seen as Mr. Kimball is all ready to be a state issue; he says the printin' press is a four horse-power an' he's sure as he can arrange for Hiram Mullins to work the wringer the day he goes to press. Mr.
Yer see guvment wuz a printin money fass. Jess's quick ez a bill run daown they up and printed another one, so they wuz allers plenty. Soon ez the war wuz over they stopped a printin bills and immejetly the hard times come. Hain't that so?"
Also, he was fresh from the hands of Aunt Sally and his catechism lesson, into which she had adroitly forced a hint of the conduct due toward a "wise man, that can write printin'." Supposing it to be a production of the little fellow's own, Mr.
Th' brokerage house iv Conem an' Comp'ny wint into th' hands iv a receiver to-day. Th' failure was due to th' refusal iv th' banks to lend anny more money on hat pools. Th' steeple iv th' Swedenborjan Church is undher repair. Th' Daily Fog Horn has put in three new color presses an' will begin printin' a colored supplement Sunday next. An' so it goes. It ain't a boat at all. It's a city.
In the last day, she had ceased to be a child, and become a woman with all the soul-aching possibilities of a woman's intuitions. "Samson," she said, "I hain't askin' ye ter make me no promises. When ye sees them other gals gals thet kin read an' write I reckon mebby ye'll think diff'rent. I can't hardly spell out printin' in the fust reader."
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