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CAMPAIGNS OF A NON-COMBATANT, AND HIS lilomaunt abroad hiring tlje
tDar. CHAPTER I. MY IMPRESSMENT. " Here is a piece of James
Franklin's printing press, Mr. Townsend," said Mr. Pratt to me, at
Newport the other day, ? " Ben. Franklin wrote for the paper, and
set type upoit. The press was imported from England in 1730, or
thereabouts." He produced a piece of wood, a foot in length, and
then laid it away in its drawer very sacredly. " I should like to
write to that press, Mr. Pratt," I said, ? "there would be no
necessity in such a case of getting off six columns for to-night's
mail." " Well " said Mr. Pratt, philosophically, " I have a theory
that a man grows up to machinery. As your day so shall your
strength be. I believe you have telegraphed up to a House
instrument, haven't you ? " "Mr. Pratt," cried I, with some
indignation, "your memory is too good. This is Newport, and I have
come down to see the surf. Pray, do not remind me of hot hours in a
newspaper office, the click of a Morse dispatch, and work far into
the midnight " So I left Mr. Pratt, of the Newport Mercury, with
anostentation of affront, and bade James Brady, the boatman, hoist
sail and carry me over to Dumpling Rocks. On the grassy parapet of
the crumbling tower which once served the purposes of a fort, the
transparent water hungering at its base, the rocks covered with
fringe spotting the channel, the ocean on my right hand lost in its
own vastncss, and Newport out of mind save when the town bells
rang, or the dip of oars beat in the still swell of Narragansett, I
lay down, chafing and out of temper, to curse the only pleasurable
labor I had ever undertaken. To me all places were workshops: the
seaside, the springs, the summer mountains, the cataracts, the
theatres, th...
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