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No one ought anywhere to exercise it who cannot read and write, and if I had my way, no one should cast a ballot who had not a fair conception of the effect of it, shown by a higher test of intelligence than the mere fact of ability to scrawl his name and to spell out a line or two in the Constitution.
Moreover, the few seconds that are saved in the course of the day, by writing ill instead of well, do not amount to an object of time by any means equivalent to the disgrace or ridicule of writing the scrawl of a common whore. Consider, that if your very bad writing could furnish me with matter of ridicule, what will it not do to others who do not view you in that partial light that I do?
By late afternoon all was arranged, papers signed and witnessed, and the two signatures affixed, the one small and cramped a soldier's hand; the other bold and flowing the scrawl of a king. And Hedwig, save for the ceremony, was the bride of Karl of Karnia. It was then that the Chancellor rose and stretched his legs.
"Buonaroba I know," said he. "What am I to think of Bellaroba, Guarino?" "Your Grace shall be pleased to think that his daughter has chosen her for her own person," said the Count. "Hum," said Borso, and signed the parchment. Then came another scrawl for "my love Angilotto," in which the miraculous news was told.
In Uncle Aleck Majors' book, "Seventy Years on the Frontier," he relates how on every wagon-sheet and wagon-bed, on every tree and barn door, he used to find the name "William F. Cody" in a large, uncertain scrawl. Those were my writing lessons, and I took them daily until I had my signature plastered pretty well over the whole of Salt Creek Valley.
I cried, "what have you done?" "It was a mere scrawl," he said impatiently. "No, no it was beautiful. I would have given anything for it!" Monsieur Maurice laughed, and patted me on the cheek. "Nonsense, petite, nonsense!" he said. "It was only fit for the fire. I will make you a better drawing, if you remind me of it, to-morrow."
Though Lancelot said little to Marjorie beyond the bare news of what had happened I could see that he took the disappearance of Jensen and that little scrawl we found in his cabin badly to heart.
They were not so careful of the bones of horses, which lie in thousands about the precincts of their untidy villages, but not a scrawl on a bit of a mammoth tusk has been found to indicate whether these were ridden and driven, or only hunted and eaten. Why should it be recorded that Cadmus invented letters? Why should we inquire who first made gunpowder and glass?
But Caesar laid his hand on them, and said, imperiously: "Drink! Give me the cup." He fixed his eyes on the wax, and with difficulty deciphered the clumsy scrawl in which Alexander had noted down the following lines, which he had heard at the "Elephant": "Since on earth our days are numbered, Ask me not what deeds of horror Stain the hands of fell Tarautas.
About Balzac's part of the letter there is not much to remark, except that he was evidently very fond of his step-daughter, that he told her how ill he was, and that the handwriting is the scrawl of a man who could not see. His high spirits indeed have disappeared, but this change of tone is easily accounted for by the state of his health.
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