Ode to the Alphabet, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Tribute to the Useful, Pleasant, and Ever-Unfolding A,B,C's drills Sold as a piar

Sold as a piar

but I've found that a marble works just as well

grouped in segments

and then these two areas of woven and knotted rope on the face

referred to in the last sentence

Ode to the Alphabet, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Tribute to the Useful, Pleasant, and Ever-Unfolding A,B,C's drills Sold as a piarFound digging deep in a pile at Brimfield certainly this one would attract little attention for the looks of it, but for me it was a delight to find, an ode to the alphabet itself! Earlier 1800s, black in on faded blue paper, like the alphabet somehow managing to endure. Among the curious, useful and pleasant thing of the world nothing seems to unfold so much respecting all ages as the Alphabet and might be rightly termed the fountain which sends