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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 6: apprenticeship. (search)
, it takes considerable learning to be a printer. Have you been to school much? No, said the boy, I hav'nt had much chance at school. I've read some. What have you read? asked Mr. Bliss. Well, I've read some history, and some travels, and a little of most everything. Where do you live? At Westhaven. How did you come over? I came on foot. What's your name? Horace Greeley. Now it happened that Mr. Amos Bliss had been for the last three years an Inspector of Common Schools, and in fulfilling the duties of his office—examining and licensing teachers—he had acquired an uncommon facility in asking questions, and a fondness for that exercise which men generally entertain for any employment in which they suppose themselves to excel. The youth before him was—in the language of medical students—a fresh subject, and the Inspector proceeded to try all his skill upon him, advancing from easy questions to hard ones, up to those knotty problems with which he had bee
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 11: the firm continues (search)
for some time, the printing of a small tri-weekly paper called the Constitutionalist, which was the organ of the great lottery dealers, and the vehicle of lottery news, a small, dingy, quarto of four pages, of which one page only was devoted to reading matter, the rest being occupied by lottery tables and advertisements. The heading of this interesting periodical was as follows: the Constitutionalist, Wilmington, Delaware. Devoted to the Interests of Literature, Internal Improvement, Common Schools, &c., &c. The last half square of the last column of the Constitutionalist's last page contained a standing advertisement, which read thus:— Greeley and Story, No. 54 Liberty-street, New York, respectfully solicit the patronage of the public to their business of Letter-Press Printing, particularly Lottery Printing, such as schemes, periodicals, &c., which will be executed on favorable terms. Horace Greeley, who had by this time become an inveterate paragraphist, and was scribble