copy-lines

Updated: May 7, 2025

But underneath there were woids faintly scrawled in pencil: "Must concentrate attention" "The proper study of mankind is" this last written twice, as if the writer were practising copy-lines absently. Then at the very bottom was written, so faintly that hardly any eyes but Winsome's could have read the words: "Of all colours I do love the lilac. I wonder all maids do not wear gear of that hue!"

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - The Lilac Sunbonnet