Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for December 15, 2012

“ha— that you may receive this as early as May be -—-. I would but have left -”

I once had a seventh grade teacher who descibed MY handwriting as follows:[]“It looks like somebody dipped a parakeet in a bottle of ink and let it walk across the paper.”

My cursive usually leads to cursing.

In a time before PC… One secretary returned my manuscript to be rewritten…. I did that and the second try was just a bad as the first….. ! ! ! Now I just print or type…..

He needs a Spike to write for him.

Every time I see my hubby’s writing I tell him he should have been a doctor.

It’s just a matter of checking more of the writing sample. Read for sense. When in doubt, trace the known pen strokes and compare to unknown..With this fragment (he heheh) I’m getting:

Haste that you may receive this as early as may be possible. I would not have left toes.

I doubt Horace would be using the colonial ‘ff’ for a double ‘ss’.?Samson , can you read it?

The little bird that told him is a cuckoo, or a Lyrebird.

Maybe he deliberately wrote like that so that no one would know he writes dirty poems.·“There once was a filly named Venus…”