Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In mourning it reveals itself slowly

it reveals itself slowly

I can't figure out anything this could be other than a branding iron

and always paddle your own canoe

and I love the idea of a "Deposite No

I especially love the huge painterly blue sky of this one--just right against the soft

Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In mourning it reveals itself slowlyI love an antique school slate, and even more one that bears the traces of a prior owner, and of course I'm drawn like a magnet to things relating to language, especially when self descriptive. On one side of this one, etched into the slate, is "SLATE" itself, handwritten in capital serif lettering, which sure looks to me as if written in the 19th century based on the manner of the lettering. Perhaps the child who wrote it imagined with great