Paul’s Work was entered by a small courtyard with an iron gateway leading to a narrow door immediately below an outside stair. This stair led to the counting-room, adjoining which was the room allotted to Sir Walter Scott on his visits. The window of this room is shown in the accompanying illustration. In those days work began at either six or seven in the morning—the “devils” having been there an hour earlier for sweeping and cleaning. There was an hour, from nine to ten, for breakfast, a healthy arrangement long since given up under the pressure of modern business, which tends more and more to fewer breaks in the day—although the removal of work-places to suburban districts may also have had much to do with this change. The workmen now make their appearance at eight, and the dinner interval is from one to two, instead of from two to three as in former days. [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE OFFICES OF OLD PAUL’S WORK] Close by the entrance-doorway sat the time-keeper, a post long held by Mr. Smith, an old grey-headed man, father of Alexander Smith the poet, author of “A Life Drama,” and for some time Secretary to Edinburgh University. Passing upwards by devious stairways to what was known as the “long case-room,” here one would find about thirty or forty compositors, busily dipping their fingers into cases of types—spelling, capitalising, and punctuating line after line from the manuscript or “copy” before them—amidst the joke and chaff flying among themselves, and the noisy hammering of wooden “mallets” at the imposing tables or “stones” down the centre of the room, on which the “formes” of type were being corrected and got “ready for press.” A second case-room, with about twenty men, was on another, higher flat; adjoining this, in course of time, was the stereo foundry. Beyond the long case-room, on a slightly different level, was a fairly large room, partitioned off like so many sentry-boxes, occupied by that much-maligned but indispensable class, the printer’s Readers, each with his attendant satellite or “devil.”