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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 6: apprenticeship. (search)
lp pluming themselves upon their superior manners and position; and it must be confessed that the young stranger was mercilessly taken in by his elders in the office, whenever an opportunity for a practical joke presented itself. But these things soon passed away, and as Horace was seen to be an unusually intelligent and honest lad, he came to be better appreciated. The office in which he was employed was that of the Northern Spectator, a weekly paper then published by Messrs. Bliss & Dewey, and edited by E. G. Stone, brother to the late Col. Stone of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The new comer boarded in Mr. Stone's family, by whom he was well esteemed for his boyish integrity; and Mr. S. on examination found him better skilled in English grammar, even at that early age, than were the majority of school teachers in those times. His superior intelligence also strongly commended him to the notice of Amos Bliss, Esq., one of the firm already mentioned, then and now a highly-