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Updated: May 10, 2025
Thereupon Bobby got out his catalogues and told them of the second-hand self-inker to be had for twenty-five dollars, Enthusiasm burned at fever heat for about three days, then the sickening realization that the total capital of Orde & English, Job Printers including the four dollars was just seven-thirty pricked that bright dream. The approach of Christmas inspired Johnny with a new idea.
Everything connected with books and literary work fascinated the youth; like so many boys of his time before wireless came in he had his own printing-press. I wonder if it was a "self-inker"? In my day, the boy who owned a "self-inker" and "club-skates" was regarded with envy.
He fairly learned it by heart not only the machines, from the tiny card press to the beautiful fifty-dollar self-inker beyond which his ambition did not stray, but also all the little accessories of the trade the mallet, the patent quoins, the sticks, the type-cases, the composing stones, the roller moulds and compositions, the patent gauge-pins, the lead-cutters, the slugs.
"Never mind," was the reply, "make believe you did; just like politics each of us gives up his best man and takes an unknown third man. We must agree on one who has a self-inker larger than this and lots of type. I want to extend the business." "Why can't we begin at once as Jones, Downs & Co., and when we find the right kind of boy let him be Co." "Agreed, we'll get out hand-bills at once."
Pete comes slowly forward, bends down to help, felt something cold and hard beneath the wrapper, fumbled over it, clasped it round, excitedly tried to lift it, whispered awestruck, "It is, it is a self-inker;" bends further down, lifted it up awkwardly, and dropped it on his little slippered foot, with a big bang and a painful, "oh!"
"Well, yes, suppose I am now; but I need not be long if you keep your bargain, besides my press is new and that counts for me." "Well, yes, it does. Self-inker? lots of type?" "Well, not so very much; self-inker though. Or come, you just go in and try it for a month and we'll make terms afterwards." "Pretty dangerous plan; but I'll try it, seeing it is a new press.
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