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That book was not then written , or I might have taken the advice ; meanwhile I think , with due respect to such authority , that I went through a preparatory training quite as useful in seasoning the future emigrant . I associated readily with the kindly peasants and craftsmen , who became my teachers . With what pride I presented my father with a desk , and my mother with a work-box , fashioned by my own hands ! I made Bolt a lock for his plate-chest , and -LRB- that last was my magnum opus , my great masterpiece -RRB- I repaired and absolutely set going an old turret-clock in the tower that had stood at 2 p.m. since the memory of man . I loved to think , each time the hour sounded , that those who heard its deep chime would remember me . But the flocks were my main care . The sheep that I tended and helped to shear , and the lamb that I hooked out of the great marsh , and the three venerable ewes that I nursed through a mysterious sort of murrain which puzzled all the neighborhood , -- are they not written in thy loving chronicles , O House of Caxton ?