Brewer's: Ponmanship

Dickens says of John Bell, of the Chancery, that he wrote three hands: one which only he himself could read, one which only his clerk could read, and one which nobody could read. Dean Stanley wrote about as bad a hand as man could write.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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