Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush I clearly love carved chains

I clearly love carved chains and balls in cages

which is less comprehensive and less interesting (though very pretty) than the bulk of it

The splint ash visible on the bottom of the basket has been dyed a blue green

and some on the body too

and this is a very sweet one--not a bit fussy

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush I clearly love carved chainsI've rarely met a penmanship practice notebook I didn't like, but think this is an especially nice one, filled by a Henry Fisher in 1869, under to watch of his tutor W. J. Sleiffer and I believe from Pennsylvania. What I especially love about this one is the repetition of consistently good, juicy words, and especially the pairs of words side by side, usually two to a page: Valentine Vermilion; Yearning Yawning ; Machine Manikin; Teaching Treachery,