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to win the good-will of the public by laborious 

 work, treat literature as a trade, which, like 

 other trades, requires an immense amount of 

 advertising." 



This is Jefferies' own ideal of a journalist. 

 In March, 1866, being then eighteen years of 

 age, he began his work on the North Wilts 

 Herald. 



