Hanging galley

A small galley with hooks fastened at the back in such a way that when it is hung on the boxes of the upper case it will rest in a sloping position. These galleys are found very handy for heads, whites, or standing lines, and Italic or fancy sorts turned out in distribution; and is far preferable to the slovenly habit many compositors have of dropping italic words into the bottom boxes of the upper-case, and more often than not forgetting to distribute them into their proper case, until the Italic runs short, when they resort to the back boxes to pick out the deficient letters, wasting more time in hunting over the pie for these two or three types than would have sufficed to have cleared away the whole in a proper manner.