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If I do say it myself, I can write better and faster and figure quicker than most any man you ever saw. Those rebels thought they had got hold of a wonder a lightning calculator unt lightning penman together. "As fast as I could copy one paper, unt it would prove to be all right, I would fold it up unt stick it into a big yaller envelope.
First of all, he said, we will have dinner. Here I stopped. It was my youngest daughter who insisted on my telling How I Came to Canada, and I had consented on condition she would write down what I said, for I am a poor penman and no speller. Recalling what had happened in my early life, and I did so generally as I lay in bed in my wakeful hours, I dictated to Mary as she found leisure.
The Duc de Bourgogne, as far as he dared, took the part of Berwick, who maintained that the defence was impossible. The King, hearing of all these disputes, actually sent Chamillart to the army to compose them; and it was a curious sight to behold this penman, this financier, acting as arbiter between generals on the most delicate operations of war.
Alfred had been so, and so was Herbert, and I in time came in for my share of popularity, and, as I found, for what is far more valuable, of sincere, true friendship. We all at that time undoubtedly enjoyed the sunshine of prosperity. We heard occasionally from Alfred; but he was not an apt penman, and did not prove himself so good a correspondent as we had hoped.
I replied, "I am a doctor of the law and a man of learning, a scribe, a grammarian, a poet, a mathematician and a skilled penman." Quoth he, "Thy trade is not in demand in this country nor are there in this city any who understand science or writing or aught but money-getting." "By Allah," said I, "I know nought but what I have told thee!"
It is nearly as difficult for a master of the pen to imitate an untrained hand as for the untrained hand to write like an expert penman.
So the penknife played an important part on every writing-desk, and it was impossible to imagine a good penman who did not possess skill in the art of shaping the quills. What has been accomplished between 1837 and the present date in the way of means of communication I need not recapitulate.
The wise man of old did well to confess his ignorance of 'the way of an eagle in the air." "The eagle," said Elder Staples, "seems to have been a favorite illustration of the sacred penman. 'They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount upward as on the wings of an eagle." "What think you of this passage?" said the Doctor.
Silliman says, "he was a young man of a vigorous and active mind, energetic and quick in his decisions and movements, with a warm heart and a genial temper, of the best moral and social habits, a quiet and skillful penman, an agreeable inmate of my family, in which we made him quite at home. We found we had acquired an interesting and valuable friend as well as a good professional assistant.
"I must request you to be brief, for I rarely allow myself to be disturbed at this hour." "I will be brief. I merely come to ask if you have employment for a tolerably rapid, accurate penman?" "Do you refer to yourself?" Mr. Houghton asked, his brow darkening. "I do, sir." "Do you think this a sufficient excuse for interrupting me at this hour?" "Yes, sir."
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