Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 315
My first days work for others, when fourteenyears old, was performed in a paper-mill in west-ern Massachusetts, where I learned some Latin inspare moments, and saved enough money to pre-pare for college. To give a complete history of paper would fillevery number of the St. Nicholas for a year.The… … cate tissue-paper. Weaving must have been sug-gested by the intricate spiders web and thebuilding of dams by the skillful beaver. Man has always been slow to learn from Nature.Writing was first done on leaves and stones. Inthe libraries of London, Vienna, and Copenhagenare carefully treasured…
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