For our own parts, we have been perfectly amazed at the work we have seen done by children of six or seven-bright, merry creatures, who have all the spirit of their childhood active in them, repressed by no parent's selfish love of ease and silence, cowed by no dull-witted teacher of the A B C and the pothooks.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
An iron bar crossed the fireplace and on this bar still hung the fire-blackened pothooks.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Then, picking up a pencil and idly scrawling pothooks on the big clean sheet of blotting-paper that covered his reference-book table, beside which the men were sitting, he asked: "Well, what's the trouble all about?
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England