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Member Since: August 2006 Posts: 13,123 Send Message	UzziAndHerDogs	Report	28 Sep 2009 23:14
	A PENCIL MAKER TOLD THE PENCIL 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS : 1.) EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL ALWAYS LEAVE A MARK. 2.) YOU CAN ALWAYS CORRECT THE MISTAKES YOU MAKE. 3.) WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT IS INSIDE OF YOU. 4.) IN LIFE , YOU WILL UNDERGO PAINFUL SHARPENINGS, WHICH WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON. 5.) TO BE THE BEST PENCIL, YOU MUST ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE HELD AND GUIDED BY THE HAND THAT HOLDS YOU.
	Researching: Turner, Staniforth in Beighton and Ridgeway Sproat in Sheffield and Cumbria
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 9,185 Send Message	Amanda2003	Report	28 Sep 2009 23:26
	Being a pencil sounds reasonable to me . Being the Granddaughter of a civil servant ( some of whose pencils that he pinched from work I still have )............. a pencils life sounds ok : ))
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,234 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	29 Sep 2009 09:51
	That is clever isn't it?
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin