Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 682
The way some pupils gripped their pensQuite filled him with dismay: It almost seemed as if they fearedThe pens would fly away. … Your thumb and fingers one and twoShould guide your pen, said he, And on the fingers third and fourthThe hand can rest, you see. Your hand or wrist should never touch The table or the page;You 11 not write well till this you learn If you should live an age.
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