FARCES: Five O’Clock Tea.--The Mouse-Trap.--A Likely Story.--The Unexpected Guests.--Evening Dress.--A Letter of Introduction.--The Albany Depot.--The Garroters. Ill’d. 50 cents each. My earliest memories, or those which I can make sure are not the sort of early hearsay that we mistake for remembrance later in life, concern a country newspaper, or, rather, a country printing-office. The office was in my childish consciousness some years before the paper was; the compositors rhythmically swaying before their cases of type; the pressman flinging himself back on the bar that made the impression, with a swirl of his long hair; the apprentice rolling the forms, and the foreman bending over the i…
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