Journalism -- Juvenile literature
“It’s a dark day,” he said to himself, glancing at the window, “and I’m afraid I feel rather dark myself. But that won’t do;” and he straightened himself up and began to drop the types faster than ever.
“It’s a dark day,” he said to himself, glancing at the window, “and I’m afraid I feel rather dark myself. But that won’t do;” and he straightened himself up and began to drop th...
2. CHAPTER II.“Well, this is a funny old world,” Dick said to himself. “Last night some of the big editors were calling me Mr. Sumner and telling me I’d written a good article, and this morni...
3. CHAPTER III.“Yes, sir,” he answered, “the stonecutters had a very lively meeting, and I ought to have known that it was an important piece of news. I’ll try to use better judgment next time...
4. CHAPTER IV.“Simply immense, Sumner!” was the city editor’s greeting when Dick went into the office on the morning after his Sing Sing experience. “‘Open the north switch!’ ha, ha! Nobody e...
5. CHAPTER V.The gale threatened every moment to blow Dick and his companion from the old pier; and while the lights of the tug became smaller and smaller they felt their way carefully towar...
6. CHAPTER VI.The opportunity to write this “special” was a great relief to Dick; for, notwithstanding his success in a professional way, he found it hard to make both ends meet. The writing...
7. CHAPTER VII.“I’m not going to congratulate you on your good fortune, Sumner,” he said, “till I see whether it is a good thing for you or the opposite. It may prove to be the worst thing tha...
8. CHAPTER VIII.He put his head down again and burst into another flood of tears. His wife threw her arms around his neck and wept hysterically; and to complete the picture the baby began to cry.
9. CHAPTER IX.In a struggle between steam and iron on the one side and human flesh on the other, the flesh must generally give way; and it was so in this case. The winch turned, the rope taut...
10. CHAPTER X.A whole week at home! That was the order when Dick reached the office after his Porto Rico trip. It was necessary to give him a chance to write what he had in mind.
11. CHAPTER XI.Early on a Friday morning the train landed Dick in Cincinnati; and after eating breakfast in the railway restaurant he went down to the river front to look for a boat. The river...
12. CHAPTER XII.It was decidedly the most civilized-looking man in the car who sat down beside Dick and asked the question. He was a young man of twenty-eight or thirty, who proved afterward to...
13. CHAPTER XIII.He was very well satisfied with this, for various reasons. He was far behind in his facts, although he had been writing, writing, as fast as he could. While in Texas and on the...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The comfort of Dick’s stay in the engine-house depended very largely upon how he took this laughter at his expense, and he was shrewd enough to know it. He had mistaken the noon...
15. CHAPTER XV.“Mr. Harding tells me you have asked for a month’s vacation, Dick, and that he has given it to you,” Darling said one night when they were eating their late supper together. “I...