The printer boy; . So James proceededto read the article aloud, while all Hstened withdeep interest. All the while Benjamin was busilyemployed at his work, though his ears were nevermore willing to hear. You may be sure that he feltrather queerly while his composition was undergo-ing this test, and a close observer might liMje ob-served a sly, comical twinkle of his eye. Thdread-ing went on without one of the company dreamingthat the author stood at their elbow. Capital! exclaimed one, as the last line wasread. Who can the author be ? * As a general thing, said James, I shall notinsert article
The printer boy; . So James proceededto read the article aloud, while all Hstened withdeep interest. All the while Benjamin was busilyemployed at his work, though his ears were nevermore willing to hear. You may be sure that he feltrather queerly while his composition was undergo-ing this test, and a close observer might liMje ob-served a sly, comical twinkle of his eye. Thdread-ing went on without one of the company dreamingthat the author stood at their elbow. Capital! exclaimed one, as the last line wasread. Who can the author be ? * As a general thing, said James, I shall notinsert articles from persons unknown to me, but thisis so good that I shall publish it. By all means, said one of the company. Weshall soon find out the author ; it is a difficult mat-ter to keep such things secret for a long time. The author is evidently a person of ability,added another; every sentence in that article ischarged with tj^ought. I should judge that hewanted only culture to make him a writer of thefirst class. t. THE NEWSPAPER. 119 Publishing the article will be as likely as any-thing to bring out the tfuthor, said James. It was decided to print the article, all having ap-proved of the same, much to the satisfaction of Ben-jamin, who awaited the decision with some he scarcely knew how to act in regard to thepiece, whether to father it at once, or still concealits parentage. On the whole, however, he decidedto withhold its authorship for the present, and tryhis hand again in the same way. Much encouragedby the success of his first effort, Benjamin was pre-pared to produce even a better article on the secondtrial, which was discussed and approved in the sameway as the first. Thus he wrote, and put underthe door at night, a number of articles, all of whichwere pronounced good by James and his was a time of much interest and excitement toBenjamin, since he was the unknown characterso much extolled by the patrons of the hear his own articles remark
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