The Bodleys telling stories . neatly upona pile. The only person at work, apparently, was the girl whopassed the sheets of white paper along, but the press was clicking,the wheels and rollers were revolving, and the whole machine seemedto be alive. That was because the press was attached to a shaftthat connected finally with the big steam-engine in another part ofthe building, which was going steadily all the time, driving thewheels of all the presses and other machinery. Each sheet that was printed from the plates of the press was ex-actly like the last and the next, and when a thousand were
The Bodleys telling stories . neatly upona pile. The only person at work, apparently, was the girl whopassed the sheets of white paper along, but the press was clicking,the wheels and rollers were revolving, and the whole machine seemedto be alive. That was because the press was attached to a shaftthat connected finally with the big steam-engine in another part ofthe building, which was going steadily all the time, driving thewheels of all the presses and other machinery. Each sheet that was printed from the plates of the press was ex-actly like the last and the next, and when a thousand were printed, 14 210 THE 1 mi)LEYS lELLiyc SfolHES. the sixteen pages woiilil ]>c taken oil and the next sixteen pnt onand printed IVoni upon other sheets of white paper. Suppose, Nathan. said Mr. Kal^eton. • that your book has twohundred and forty pages, and we print sixteen at a time, how manytimes slioidd we have to ])rint before tlie book was done? Natlian :-milliml>ll/l///r//mMM ?m////////////////////^y^^^fff:>^. A Press-Room. was a pretty good arithmetician, but he had only one May of (loinirsums in liis li(\Td. He stood and wrote tlie figures in the air withhis forefinger, division marks and all. and did the sum thus, imagin-ing all the figures and signs before him. Mr. Haketon laughed, butthe answer was right, — fifteen. Yes; fifteen times should wehave to put a new set of stereoty[)e plates on the press, and when
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