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of his every schoolmaster. There was one school interest however. With another boy, named Hutchinson, he started a school magazine, printed by lithography, of all things! A lithographic press came from father's den and these two blessed infants wrote backwards and made drawings upon the stone and printed the magazine in genuine printer's ink!
My father had become the editor and, I think, part owner, of a languishing weekly journal called the Photographic News, and I joined the 'staff' at a salary of five shillings a week and my keep. I held that job down — on those terms — for four years but I had to find other means to augment my salary. I did what I could on the advertising side, collecting overdue accounts on commission and sometimes getting in new advertisers. I wrote articles and illustrated them in pen-and-ink, and got paid seven shillings and sixpence a column — half the usual rate — and all the time I saved and saved every penny I could get.
But I had my small extravagances. On the left-hand side of Peckham Rye as you face south, there is, or there was then, a very appetising little shop where they sold lovely beef-steak puddings, hot, at fourpence each. Several of my customers from whom I tried to collect accounts lived in this neighbourhood and there was one in particular who was a very sluggish payer and I used to have to call upon him three or four times for every once I collected any cash. When I succeeded I used to turn into this little shop and celebrate with a beef-steak pudding, hot. And if I failed I sometimes had a hot pudding, then, to comfort me.
There was a small chemist's shop by the railway bridge at Blackheath kept by people by the name of Butcher. I liked going there, not merely because the collection of the money was easier but principally because I liked to see them growing steadily bigger, a little bigger every time I went there. There were two or three brothers and a father I think, and I suppose they must have had between them that curious flair for business which makes a few people always choose the right path and be led on to prosperity. Their name became one of the biggest in the photographic trade before I was very much older and they were among the first people to take a tentative interest in the new-fangled Living Photographs when that strange adventure sprang itself upon the world. Even now, the name of Butcher has an important place in the industry of the moving pictures.
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