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Some are more industriously employed in writing their copies, which they perform seated on the ground, with their paper on a copy-board a piece of planed deal, the size of the copy, an appendage now nearly exploded their cheek-bones laid within half an inch of the left side of the copy, and the eye set to guide the motion of the hand across, and to regulate the straightness of the lines and the forms of the letters.
The last group worthy of remark was composed of a few persons who were writing threatening notices upon a leaf torn out of a school-boy's copy, which was laid upon what they formerly termed a copy-board, of plain deal, kept upon the knees, as a substitute for desks, while the boys were writing.
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