He fairly learned it by heart-not only the machines, from the tiny card press to the beautiful fifty-dollar self-Inker beyond which his ambition did not stray, but also all the little accessories of the trade-the mallet, the patent quoins, the sticks, the type-cases, the composing stones, the roller moulds and compositions, the patent gauge-pins, the lead-cutters, the slugs.
"The Adventures of Bobby Orde"
Stewart Edward White