Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 doll house balustrades with arms wrapped around the

with arms wrapped around the shoulders and tail held between the toes

and all in good working order: hitting either of the chipmunks will knock them back

it occurs to me how deeply embedded is our tendency toward linear organization

with the paint cakes retaining their embossed images--a variety of seashells on their faces

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 doll house balustrades with arms wrapped around theI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had