Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise iron mends bends and small dings here

bends and small dings here and there

all those abstract lines form words

I might guess there were a couple of makers involved in creating these six soldiers

Weighs 8 3/4" pounds

turned this Cocomalt can into a magnifying glass  Works great

Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise iron mends bends and small dings hereThis is an early pen and ink penmanship exercise signed Sally Spague and dated 1808. In addition to the fabulous eagle at top, and the header "Confine Your Passions" employing the "long s", what really sold me was the section about riches. "Riches in the hand of a beneficent man are a blessing to the public [.] such a one is a steward to providence and the whole means of correcting the inequalities of fortune [,] of relieving the miserable and