Found in the Albany Law Journal, Jan 12th 1880

 

An Editor's Vacation

About six weeks ago a person entered our office and proposed to sell us a new-fangled "fountain pen." The rash young man at length mentioned as a recommendation that the pen held ink enough to last through twenty-four hours of incessant writing, and obviated the 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 dipping our pen in the ink-stand, and no man shall deprive us of that. Please go away with your vacation extinguisher."

He saw that 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.