. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . ince then, that cradle — the onesingled out in the procession — and the words spokenhave been indelibly impressed on my memory. Centennial of Washingtons Birth. 41 A few years later, I became familiar with a bannerwhich the printers carried on the occasion just referredto, for it stoodthen, and for along time after,behind a print-ing press in theoffice of Johns-ton & pressmanwho carried thebanner, and whoalso worked onthe press refer-red to, wasnamed JohnKnox. The de-vice on the ban-ner was an old-fashioned handpr
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . ince then, that cradle — the onesingled out in the procession — and the words spokenhave been indelibly impressed on my memory. Centennial of Washingtons Birth. 41 A few years later, I became familiar with a bannerwhich the printers carried on the occasion just referredto, for it stoodthen, and for along time after,behind a print-ing press in theoffice of Johns-ton & pressmanwho carried thebanner, and whoalso worked onthe press refer-red to, wasnamed JohnKnox. The de-vice on the ban-ner was an old-fashioned handpress, and be-neath it was acouplet, whichin later years Ilearned was from the pen of Judge Story: Here shall the Press the peoples rights maintain,Unawed by influence, and unbribed by gain. A recollection of a different character, belonging totwo or three years later, is in my mind. Coming intothe house one day with wet feet, I pulled off ray shoesto dry them. I was alone in my mothers room, a fire inthe grate had been recently replenished with coal, and I. PRINTERS BANNER, CENTENNIAL OF BIRTH OFWASHINQTON. 42 One Way to Dry Wet Shoes. selected a large lump, which lay on the top, as a suitableplace for my wet shoes. Turning aside and busying my-self in divers things, it was not until the odor of burntleather attracted my attention that I discovered my shoescrisped and curled out of shape, and, of course, might not this be accounted an illustration of aScriptural expression: While I mused the fire burn-ed? It is said that a burnt child dreads the , however, have to confess that this lesson of my child-hood did not produce the dread it should, inasmuch asin later years I was a sufferer from a similar cause, andunder circumstances when the loss of a pair of shoes wasindeed serious, the source of supply being distant; andhad it not been that I possessed a duplicate pair, mysituation would have been deplorable. This was on anight in the year 49, when at the clos
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