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PRINTING 



PAIR OF CASES ACCORDING TO THE MODERN METHOD. 

 Upper. 



Lower. 



seen in the illustration (fig. 1673). With the right hand he picks up the types, and 

 arranges them one by one in his composing stick. He does not look at the face, but 

 only glances at the nick (fig. 1670, c), and takes it for granted that if it come from the 



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right box it must be the right letter. He secures each letter with the thumb of 

 the left hand, as the types are placed side by side in line from left to right ; and, 

 when he comes to the end of his line, and finds that he has a syllable or word 

 whicli will not fill out the measure, he has to perform a task which requires con- 

 siderable care and taste. This is called justification. The first and last letters must 

 be at the extremities of the line ; and there must not be wide spaces between some 

 words and crowding in others, but the distances between them must be made as 

 nearly as possible uniform by changing the spaces (or short blank types, not so higli 

 as the letters, and therefore giving no impression), and thus getting in or driving out 

 part or the whole of a word. The first line beingthus justified, the compositor proceeds 



