recording-tablets

Updated: June 18, 2025

The tramp on the dusty highway, the clerk in the counting-house, the sportsman upon the moor, the preacher in his pulpit, game-bird and barn-door fowl alike, all were simultaneously bagged. Unless, like the Irishman's swallow, you could be in two places at once, down you went on the recording-tablets.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860