s a printer,
and needed a boy to do the dirty work around the office, and thought
there was no need of paying good money to an outsider, when it might
just as well be kept in the family. So Benjamin went to work sweeping
out, and washing up the dirty presses, and making himself generally
useful during the day; but--and here is the first gleam of the eagle's
feather--instead of going to bed with the sun as most boys did, he sat
up most of the night reading such books and papers as he was able to get
hold of at the office, or himself writing short articles for the paper
which his brother published. These he slipped unsigned under the front
door of the office, so that his brother would not suspect they came from
him; for no man is a prophet to his own family, and these contributions
would have promptly gone into the waste basket had his brother suspected
their source. As it was, however, they were printed, and not until
Benjamin revealed their authorship did his brother discover how bad they
were.
After he had served in the printing office for seven years, Benjamin
came to the conclusion that his family would never appreciate him at his
real worth. He was like most boys in this, differing from them only in
being right. So he sold some of his books, and without saying anything
to his father or brother, who would probably have reasoned him out of
his purpose with a cowhide whip, he hid himself on board a boat bound
for New York. Arrived there, he soon discovered that printers and
budding geniuses were in no great demand, and so proceeded on to
Philadelphia, partly on foot and partly by water.
Everyone knows the story of how he landed there, with only a few pennies
in his pocket, but with a sublime confidence in his ability to make
more; how he proceeded to the nearest bakeshop, asked for three pennies'
worth of bread, and when he was given three loaves, took them rather
than reveal his ignorance by confessing that he really wanted only one
loaf, and walked up Market street, with a loa
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.