Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 185

"I look back," Mr. Nasmyth says, "to the hours of Saturday afternoons spent in having the run of the workshops of this small foundry as the true and only apprenticeship of my life. I did not trust to reading about such things. I saw, handled, and helped when I could; and all the ideas in connection with them became in all details, ever after, permanent in my mind,--to say nothing of the no small acquaintance obtained at the same time of the nature of workmen."

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