Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — An Editor’s Vacation. [ARTICLE]

An Editor’s Vacation.

About six weeks ago a person entered our office and proposed to sell us a newfangled “ fountain pen.” The rash young man at length mentioned as a recommendation that the pen held ink enough to last through twenty-four hours’ incessant writing, ana obviated the tedious necessity of dipping it in the ink-stand. Thereupon we exclaimed: “Dear young friend, would you deprive us of our vacation?” “I don’t understand,” he replied. “Why,” said we, “the only vacation we get is while we are dipping our pen in the ink-stand, and no man shall deprive us of that. Please go away with your vacation extinguisher.” He saw we were in earnest, and he went, not even daring to offer us one of his “fountains’' as a gift, and we dipped our old-fashioned pen in our muddy old ink-stand and took a rest.— Albany Law Journal.