I am too old to learn new tricks.

Much easier for me to write myself." Shortly after that, however, Mr.Beecher dictated to Edward some material for a book he was writing.

Edward naturally wondered at this, and asked the stenographer what had happened.
"Nothing," he said.

"Only Mr.Beecher asked me how much it would cost you to have me come to him each week.

I told him, and then he sent me away." That was Henry Ward Beecher! Edward Bok was in the formative period between boyhood and young manhood when impressions meant lessons, and associations meant ideals.
Mr.Beecher never disappointed.