sand-bottles

Updated: July 2, 2026

There were little square covers for the ink and sand-bottles; and on the under sides of these were painted a pair of faces; very ruddy in the cheeks they were, with staring eyes and smiling mouths; and one of them wore a pair of black side-whiskers. They were done by my father, with oil colors filched from my mother's paint-box.

Julian Hawthorne - Hawthorne and His Circle