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This was the point that, put aside however often, still presented itself, and its recurrence, if he could have known it, was mercy and reprieve from the only source out of which these could come. Hannah Morrison did not return to the printing-office, and Bird was still sick, though it was now only a question of time when he should be out again.
All the States which have pronounced an anathema against books and alphabets, have likewise forbidden that any colored man shall be employed in a printing-office, under the penalty of ten dollars for every offence. In Mississippi, any white who employs, or receives a free colored person, without a certificate of freedom, written on parchment, forfeits one thousand dollars.
"You have got round him this time, certainly," said John. "How does he feel about it?" "He has appealed to father, and father has decided against me, and advised me to go back; but I am not at all disposed to do it." "I would work in some other printing-office," added John, "before I would go to New York." "But I can get work nowhere else.
The physician in charge of the out-patients' department at University College Hospital said there was lung-trouble, and a man at the printing-office who had never been there, said South Africa was the cure for that.
He could read before he could speak plainly, and at the age of six he had declared that his purpose in life was to be a printer. At eleven he tried to be apprenticed at the village printing-office and was unsuccessful; at the age of fourteen he was taken on as an apprentice in the office of the Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Vt.
"I am sure you must be mistaken," he repeated. "May I use your telephone one moment?" asked Pinkerton; and as soon as permission had been granted, I heard him ring up the printing-office where our advertisements were usually handled.
There I found my brothers Lampson and Hoyt employed in the "Gazette" printing-office, and spent much time with them and Charles Anderson, Esq., visiting his brother Larz, Mr. Longworth, some of his artist friends, and especially Miss Sallie Carneal, then quite a belle, and noted for her fine voice, On the 20th I took passage on the steamboat Manhattan for St. Louis; reached Louisville, where Dr.
She watched the "Transcript" list of "Wants," and wished there might be a "Want" made expressly for her. How many anxious eyes scan those columns through with a like longing, every night! If she could get copying to do, if she could obtain a situation in the State House, that paradise of well paid female scribes! If she could even learn to set up type, and be employed in a printing-office?
What the two apprentices did not already know, Pet McMurry could teach them. Sam Clemens had promised to be a good boy, and he was so, by the standards of boyhood. He was industrious, regular at his work, quick to learn, kind, and truthful. Angels could hardly be more than that in a printing-office.
"Parker must give them to Richard; he knows pretty well how to do them, unless he can find time for them himself." "I was to be at the Green printing-office at nine to-morrow morning," said Jasper. "What for?" "They sent down to Mr. Parker yesterday that we had made a mistake about price for doing those five hundred Past and Present; and wanted him to go to their office, and see Mr.
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