Somebody was using the pencil.
Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline; in The Years with Ross, by James Thurber, 1959.
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.