Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock It is a fairly delicate

It is a fairly delicate piece in good antique condition

The bird itself perches very sturdily atop the mirror

with each letter of each name carefully carved in capital letters against stippled grounds

The paper label on the underside of the lid reads "John Moore

the shoe maker

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock It is a fairly delicateAs you likely know by now, I've a special weakness for penmanship practice notebooks of all sorts, for all different sorts of reasons, high among them being the specific words and phrases chosen for repetition, which take on added resonance for being written over and over again (and also tell us a lot about the times, including the values being stealthily drilled into children! ) This one, published in 1899, struck me first for the sentence "Burnt