Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . elf np and con-ceal his work from them; and so he went on, monthafter month, striving to bring about the realization ofthe great art of printing, which he perceived to bepossible. One day, while old Coster was thus busily at work,a sturdy German youth, with a knapsack slung acrosshis back, trudged into Haarlem. By some chance thisyouth happened to hear how the churchwarden wasat work upon a wild scheme to print books instead ofwriting them. With beating heart the young man re-paired to Costers house, and made all haste to knockat the
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . elf np and con-ceal his work from them; and so he went on, monthafter month, striving to bring about the realization ofthe great art of printing, which he perceived to bepossible. One day, while old Coster was thus busily at work,a sturdy German youth, with a knapsack slung acrosshis back, trudged into Haarlem. By some chance thisyouth happened to hear how the churchwarden wasat work upon a wild scheme to print books instead ofwriting them. With beating heart the young man re-paired to Costers house, and made all haste to knockat the churchwardens humble door. Who this youthwas, and what came of his visit to old Coster, will betold in the next lesson. GrEOKGE M. ToWLE. Haarlem: har lem.—warden: keeper, watchman.—parchment: the skin of an animal, usually the sheep, prepared to be written on.—yellum:a fine kind of parchment, usually made of calfskin.—Spaaren: spar en.—glutinous: sticky, gluey.—pewter: a hard material made of tin and leadmelted together.—sorcerer: 92 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE JOHN GUTENBERG, THE INVENTOR OF THEPRINTING-PRESS The sturdy young German who, with knapsack onback and staff in hand, knocked at old Laurence Cos-ters door, was no ordinary youth. Although scarcelymore than twenty, he had already seen a great deal oflife. John Gutenberg belonged to a distinguished fam-ily, and had been brought up in such luxury as couldbe enjoyed in those rude times; but he did not allowluxurious living to make him lazy or* was an industrious student, and had receivedthe best training which the learned monks couldgive him. Often, when a boy, he was found poring over themanuscripts which he found in the monasteries wherehe was educated. He was also very religious in thought and a time he would earnestly exclaim, what a pityit was that the Bible was a closed book to the massesof the people; that, as it was written by hand on parch-ment, it could be posses
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