...form, is the often-told story of his self-imposed apprenticeship : All through my boyhood and youth I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...books in my pocket — one to read, one to write in. As I walked my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when 1 sat by the roadside,...

...thing is possible) the way in which he got his style. "All through my boyhood and youth," says he, "I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...my own private end, which was to learn to write." He traces with gusto, and doubtless with as much accuracy as can be expected in a map drawn from memory,...

...have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE A_L through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when 1 sat by the roadside,...

...have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE AL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As 1 walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside,...

...have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE AL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside,...

...which I was extreamly ambitious." 1 . " All through my boyhood and youth," writes Mr. Stevenson, "II was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler;...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside...

...in a most interesting and personal way. " All through my boyhood and youth," Stevenson has said, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...my own private end, which was to learn to write." He gives a pretty picture of those boyish days, when, as a frequent truant from school, he tramped...

...filial support, Stevenson's own confession assures us. "All through my boyhood and youth," he writes, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler " ; and this was highly probable, for his industry was by no means the sort to be recognised in scholastic...

...great a company of readers: — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside,...

...great a company of readers: — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside,...