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Splurge forthwith began improving the minds of her girls to the extent of three full annual subscriptions for Josephine, Adelaide, and Madeline respectively; and that triplet of fair students, who, separately or conjointly, were at all times competent to the establishment of a precedent for the graceful charities of Hendrik good society, handsomely led off with a ten-dollar investment in "fountain" pens, "cream-laid assembly note," motto-wafers, Blessington envelopes "with crest and initial," ivory tablets, pencil-sharpeners, and ink-erasers.
Beyond these rarities, precious above price, Nellie had gathered a quantity of cuttle-fish `bone, as it is erroneously called, sufficient to have supplied Bob and herself for a lifetime with ink-erasers a purpose for which it is generally employed.
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