"I think yours is a useful employment, but it would not suit everybody.

Ever since I read the life of Benjamin Franklin, I have wanted to learn to be a printer." "It is an excellent business, no doubt, and if you have made up your mind I will not dissuade you.

When you have a paper of your own, you can give your old friend, Professor Henderson, an occasional puff." "I shall be glad to do that," said Harry, smiling, "but I shall have to wait some time first." "How old are you now ?" "Sixteen." "Then you may qualify yourself for an editor in five or six years.

I advise you to try it at any rate.

The editor in America is a man of influence." "I do look forward to it," said Harry, seriously.