Or, suppose we weigh these papers. If ten of them weigh a single pound, then each day's issue weighs _twelve thousand five hundred pounds_, each week's issue amounts to _seventy-five thousand pounds_, which swells the annual aggregate to about _four million pounds_. Load this yearly production upon waggons, one ton on each, and we have _two thousand and two horse loads of newspapers_ from these eight presses in a year! Again, we say, how marvellous the change! If eight daily papers of Boston throw off this vast amount of reading-matter in a year, what immense quantities are supplied by all the presses in the land! Could the actual statistics be laid before us in round numbers, doubtless the most credulous even would be amazed at the result. But to return. James decided to issue his paper, notwithstanding the advice of some of his friends to the contrary, and he thus opened the subject to Benjamin:-- "I have resolved to issue a paper, and it will require our united exertions to make it go. No doubt I shall meet with opposition, and perhaps shall fail in the attempt, but I have determined to fail _trying_." "What particular service can I render?" inquired Benjamin. "Aside from your usual work of type-setting, you are qualified to look after the composition and spelling of the articles in each number, and a part of your work shall be to deliver the paper to subscribers from week to week." "And be collector, too, I suppose," added Benjamin, rather fancying the idea of issuing a paper from the office. "As you like about that," answered his brother, "though it may be convenient, often, to have you render such a service." "I suppose you don't mean to make me editor also?" he added, rather jestingly; probably not dreaming that he should ever conduct the publication. "I think not at present," was his brother's reply. "Printer, news-carrier, and collector, will be as much honour as you can withstand at once;" and he had as little idea of the part Benjamin would play in the work as the boy had himself. Accordingly the paper was issued at the appointed time, creating quite a stir in the community, and provoking remarks _pro_ and _con_ concerning its appearance, character, and prospects. Agreeably to the arrangement, Benjamin delivered the numbers to subscribers, and perhaps he sold the paper about the streets, thus acting as one of the first newsboys on this western continent.