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YellowRose
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Sara
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Posted - Apr 20 2015 :  07:27:57 AM  Show Profile
Today's e-mail from MaryJane was on how to make a quill pen. Boy, did that bring back memories. In first grade I was taught to write with a staff pen. The same idea as a quill pen but instead of a feather it was a wooden staff the size of a pencil with metal pen inserted in it.

We printed with a fat yellow pencil and wrote cursive with staff pen. Mrs. Mayberry, who was also the principle was a stickier for using the staff pen. I think she thought it built character as well as good penmanship.

I hated it because no matter how hard I tried I always seemed to drop ink on my paper. Bless her heart she overlooked the blotches of ink and I always got a '1' in her class. She gave out no 'A-F' ~~~ she graded '1-5'.

Have a blessed day, Sara
FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14

Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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