BLESSINGS 50

VI A GAME OF CARDS 61

VII A MAD TEA PARTY 74

VIII THE ROMANCE OF BOOKMAKING 86

IX PAUL EMBARKS ON ANOTHER VENTURE 101

X A DISASTER 111

XI TEMPTATION ASSAILS PAUL 125

XII TEMPORIZING 138

XIII THE CAMERONS HAVE A VISITOR 149

XIV PAUL MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO THE CITY 162

XV THE DECISION 184

XVI AN AMAZING MIRACLE 195

XVII THE CLOUDS CLEAR 203

XVIII GRADUATION 212

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Paul gazed up at the presses that towered high above
his head _Frontispiece_

"_The March Hare_!" he repeated with enthusiasm. "You've
hit it, Cart!" PAGE 10

More than one dignified resident of the town struggled into
an incongruous garment " 74

"But I can't take your money, Mr. Carter," gasped Paul " 136

PAUL AND THE PRINTING PRESS

CHAPTER I

PAUL CAMERON HAS AN INSPIRATION

It was the vision of a monthly paper for the Burmingham High School that
first turned Paul Cameron's attention toward a printing press.

"Dad, how much does a printing press cost?" he inquired one evening as
he sat down to dinner.

"A _what_?"

"A printing press."

Mr. Cameron glanced up quizzically from the roast he was carving.

"Aren't you a trifle ambitious?"

Paul laughed.

"Perhaps I am," he admitted. "But I have often heard you say, 'Nothing
venture, nothing have.'"

It was his father's turn to laugh.

"Yet why does your fancy take its flight toward a printing press?"

Eagerly Paul bent forward.

"Why you see, sir," he explained, "ever since I was chosen President of
'20 I've wanted my class to be the finest the Burmingham High ever
graduated. I want it to leave a record behind it, and do things no other
class ever has. There has never been a school paper. They have them in
other places. Why shouldn't we?"

Mr. Cameron was all attention now.

"We've plenty