Excerpt from Printer's Errors He was the son Of a self-made man. His father had been the founder and owner of nine-tenths of the shares of the well-known Dublin printing firm, F. F. Wolver hampton, Ltd. A hard man was old F. F., a hard husband, a hard master, and a despotic father, at whose memory young F. F. Still trembled. Having led a struggling life himself in his early years he Saw no reason why his son should not do the same; having had no kind of liberal education himself he grudged it to his son - nay more, be ...
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Excerpt from Printer's Errors He was the son Of a self-made man. His father had been the founder and owner of nine-tenths of the shares of the well-known Dublin printing firm, F. F. Wolver hampton, Ltd. A hard man was old F. F., a hard husband, a hard master, and a despotic father, at whose memory young F. F. Still trembled. Having led a struggling life himself in his early years he Saw no reason why his son should not do the same; having had no kind of liberal education himself he grudged it to his son - nay more, be regarded such a thing as an encumbrance to a business man, which was what he intended his son to be. So at fourteen years Of age young F. F., heir to the whole establishment, was put to serve his time as an apprentice just as if he were a poor man's child, and for two years toiled and sweated at the works. N-o-w young F. F. Was made of different stuff from his father: a gentle, cheery lad, impatient and imaginative. He did not care much for hard work of any kind, but the laborious grimy work of the printers apprentice he detested with all his heart; SO he dreamed and plotted and planned a thousand ways of escaping from it. He had little time for reading, nor, in fact, did he feel much desire for it, but he had now and then come across Stray books that pleased him: mainly boys' adven ture books in which the hero invariably ran away from home, made his fortune, and finally settled down to peace and prosperity. He was not long, therefore, in making up his mind to do likewise. Now for all his harshness F. F. Senior was generous with money. Perhaps he dimly perceived the heaviness of his son's lot and wished to mitigate it somewhat; at any rate, besides paying him his wages the same as all the other hands, he supplied him liberally with pocket money. Not that it was much use to the poor boy at the time, for he got little Opportunity to Spend it, and even then his tastes were not extravagant; but it proved a god-send eventually. The money used to accumulate in his pockets, and when these were too full he used to deposit the overflow in. A drawer in his dressing table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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