Paul and the Printing Press

Burmingham High School that first turned Paul

press cost?" he inquired one ev

wha

nting

p quizzically from th

u a trifle

lau

ut I have often heard you say,

father's tu

cy take its flight tow

Paul ben

e finest the Burmingham High ever graduated. I want it to leave a record behind it, and do things no othe

was all at

Mr. Calder, who is at the head of the English department, asse

kle light his

but up at school we call it a poem. It was about the war. And Eva Ha

on't s

-accounts of the games, and notices of the matches to be played. And the girls want to boo

daily, I should think," rem

he joke goo

. "Do printing presses cost much? And where do you get them

eaned back i

lars to equip a plant that would do creditable work. The preparation of copy and the task of getting it out would also take a great

e lad's f

" he hastened to add, "would be to have your

e do it

are always firms that are glad to get ex

was a

"You see we haven't any class treasury to draw on

exchange

d the elder man. "Surely you are not going to g

make what we wrote worth selling. We'd make people pay for it. But we couldn't charge much. Most

you think you could g

out it. Perhaps a dollar, or a dollar an

mbers would be l

medit

e thing simply to the doings of the seniors. We should put in not only general school news but items about the lower classes as well so that the pape

d the price of pape

cost much," was th

nly can but do,"

we couldn't have

not say

an we couldn'

ting press and operate it with the money you would probably have at hand. Nevertheless there are, as I said before,

ow

ate of about how much money you would be likely to secure, go and see some printer and put the question up to him. Tell him what you would want and find out exactly what he

iliar with his father's habits, did not follow him, for he knew that from now unti

been he was in no frame of mind to attack it to-night. A myriad of schemes and problems occu

ves as they dropped from the trees and blew idly along the sidewalk. There was a tang o

le bell broke the silence. He wheeled about. Noiselessly threading his way down the v

ed Paul. "Hold on!

heel by rising erect on its pe

s up,

d into his subject. He spoke ear

you think of '20 sta

eat hat, Kip

s Paul's

to rea

rited retort. "Aren't we all red-eyed already with Lat

id not

th a paper, Kipper?"

obituaries in," he answered. "To ex

r lau

ffectionately knocking Pau

dding, Cart.

other newspaper! Scott! I don't. I ne

"I mean a zippy little monthly with all the school news in it-hockey, footbal

ied young Carter, a gleam of

e paused thoughtfully. "But the money, Kip-the

take subsc

a subscrip,

responded vaguely.

is going to pay a perfectly good dollar and a quarter for the privilege

himself Pa

ouldn't know

y! Nix! Don't they

other things in-grinds on the

worse, would it?" declared

g a hole in the earth with the

ed at length. "But the ducats-where would those

press second-hand and do our

sident. Why, man alive, a printing press that's any good costs a small fortune-more money than the whole Hi

sig

firmed reluctantly. "He suggested we g

at all right if we

ons would net u

could we

dea," Paul

s their money or their life-death or a subscription to the-what are you going to call this rich and rare

far as that," ans

o start with a slogan-something spectacular and thrilling. Buy the Nutcracker! Subscribe to the Fire-eater! Have a copy of the Jabberwock! For goodness sake, christen it something! Start out with a punch or you'll ne

hand on his fri

. "You've hit it, Cart! The March Hare it is!

e a sample copy first, wou

ke the whole thing as spooky and mysterious as we can. Nobody s

d all your money you find you can'

st comes to worst we can give the money back again. But I shan

ted with enthusiasm. "You'

ling something that doesn't even exist! I see you years hence o

"Quit your joshing! I'm serious. You've got to help me,

are when I know that not a line of it ha

ur

lle g

ave a nerve!

to do it just

Cameron which had won for him his leadership at s

second into his chum's

th you, Kipper. We'll see what we

money people pay for it. There shall be no fake about it. To-morrow I shall call a class meeting and we'll elect an editorial st

is friend with undi

arch Hare! I can hear the shekels chinking into our pockets this minute. Put me do

dollar and a quarter, or

as well go in big while we're at it. What is one-fifty for

ted into his

over his shoulder. "Got to do som

pend on y

ur March Hare with all my lungs.

he turn in the road. Then, straightening his shoulders with resolution, he