Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock Blocks are in good shape

Blocks are in good shape

producing the same scale a semitone higher in each hole

The bird itself perches very sturdily atop the mirror

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

but feels to me really fresh and immediate--I can just imagine the young artist standing before these two young men on a New York sidewalk

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock Blocks are in good shapeAs 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