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-LSB- Footnote 2 : Bosom . -RSB- ` In no way , ' said Wilderspin , ` has the spirit-world neglected the education of the apostle of spiritual beauty . I became a `` blower '' in the smithy . As a child , from early sunrise till nearly midnight , I blew the bellows for eighteen pence a week . But long before I could read or write my mother knew that I was set apart for great things . She knew , from the profiles I used to trace with the point of a nail on the smithy walls , that , unless the heavy world pressed too heavily upon me , I should become a great painter . Except anxiety about my mother and my little brothers and sisters , I , for my part , had no thought besides this of being some day a painter .