Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences mid-century tool only very minor staining

only very minor staining

as should be the case

(The eyebrows are my favorite

beautiful condition

there are hand-written numbers on each of their legs suggesting they might be two of a series made (

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences mid-century tool only very minor stainingAs 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