Word: inked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a fable of the Bird and the Ink-Pot. The Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings...
...fact that the Bird and the Ink-Pot have certain annual customs, among which is a game, played between them, with Puck. And in this year it was to be played today, were not conditions entirely too bad. But the ice is entirely lacking on the surface, and the Bird is in great fear of getting his feet wet; besides, he likes ice elsewhere than in the rinks by the Charlesbank. And due to the forementioned disaster inside the Ink-Pot, his wings will not carry him, and he must depend on his legs spindly things at best, on which...
...neighbor on Mt. Auburn street. He goes his way and we follow plodding. Any attempt on our part to catch him or his humor, like a projected theft of Thor's thunder,-could hope for no higher fate than drowning in the gloomy dep hs of our own ink-horn. Besides to be funnier than Lampy one must be intensely serious and come out early and often,-in many extras,-and we cannot hope to compete with the "Telegram...
...designs for tickets should be simple so that the reproductions will be clear. They should be made on white paper in black India ink and should be four and one-half by seven and one-half inches in size. The designs are to bear the following words respectively...
...designs for the tickets should be simple so that the reproductions will be clear. They should be made on white paper in black India ink, and should be four and one half by seven and one-half inches in size. The designs must bear the following words respectively...