Dot Wordswoth on pens and puns
‘Why,’ asked my husband, looking up from his book, ‘is Joseph Gillott a very bad man?’
‘What?’ I said.
‘Because,’ he replied, as if I had acknowledged defeat, ‘he wishes to accustom the public to steel pens and then tries to persuade them that they do write.’
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