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be constant labor of a very rapid character.
As an offset, however, we have the fact, that a considerable portion of the work becomes mechanical, a skilled compositor knowing, without looking, exactly where in her case to find the type wanted; while the placing it in position in the composing-stick correctly is accomplished by the aid of another of those marvellous processes of mental telegraphy with which our daily actions are replete. The type has upon one side a series of “ nicks,” which being felt by the finger, the brain is informed, and, without the intervention of the eye, the type is turned to the correct position, and set by the re-instructed finger. The wrong-end-first position of the type is, moreover, no impediment to the compositor, who reads “backwards” and “upside-down” as well as other people regularly read from left to- right. Hence it is to be considered, that, although an employment of distinctly co-operative physico-mental activity, it is lessened in degree as such by the