. St. Nicholas [serial]. and hehad charge of the circulation. That is to say, hecarried the papers—a mission of real importance,for a long sagging span of telegraph-wire hadreached across the river to Hannibal, and Mexi-can war news delivered hot from the front gavethe messenger a fine prestige. He even did editing, of a kind. That is to say,when Ament was not in the office and copy wasneeded, Sam hunted him up, explained the situ-ation, and saw that the necessary matter wasproduced. He was not ambitious to write —notthen. He wanted to be a journeyman printer,like Pet, and travel and see the w
. St. Nicholas [serial]. and hehad charge of the circulation. That is to say, hecarried the papers—a mission of real importance,for a long sagging span of telegraph-wire hadreached across the river to Hannibal, and Mexi-can war news delivered hot from the front gavethe messenger a fine prestige. He even did editing, of a kind. That is to say,when Ament was not in the office and copy wasneeded, Sam hunted him up, explained the situ-ation, and saw that the necessary matter wasproduced. He was not ambitious to write —notthen. He wanted to be a journeyman printer,like Pet, and travel and see the world. Some- times he thought he would like to be a clown, orend man in a minstrel troupe. Once for aweek he served as subject for a traveling hyp-notist and was dazzled by his success. But he stuck to printing and rapidly became aneat, capable workman. Ament gave him a dailytask, after which he was free. By three in theafternoon he was likely to finish his stint. Thenhe was off for the river or the cave, joining his. \h IlOMi; (INUICATIiU BY Tllli AKROVV) IN IIANMHAL, MISSOUKI. old comrades. Or perhaps he would go withLaura Hawkins to gather wild columbine on thehigh clif¥ above the river, known as Lovers winter came these two sometimes went toBear Creek, skating; or together they attendedparties, where the old-fashioned games Ring-around-Rosy and Dusty Miller were the chiefamusements. In The Gilded Age, Laura Hazvkins at twelveis pictured with her dainty hands propped intothe ribbon-bordered pockets of her apron . .a vision to warm the coldest heart and bless andcheer the saddest. That was the real Laura,though her story in that book in no way resem-l)les the reality. It was just at this time that an incident oc-curred which may be looked back upon now as aturning-point in Samuel Clemenss life. Cominghome from the office one afternoon, he noticed of paper being swept along by the saw that it was printed — was interested pro-fessionally in
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