spicemaker

Updated: May 15, 2025

His father was a ginger-bread and spicemaker at York, and his mother a woman of considerable force and originality of character was the daughter of a ropemaker. The boy early displayed a love of drawing, covering walls, floors, and tables with specimens of his skill; his first crayon being a farthing's worth of chalk, and this giving place to a piece of coal or a bit of charred stick.

Samuel Smiles - Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance