Inkslinger, Johnny, a character in American folklore, was Paul Bunyan’s timekeeper. His name came from loggers’ word for a camp clerk. He invented figures and bookkeeping to replace Bunyan’s crude methods of keeping accounts by chopping notches in trees. Johnny Inkslinger made the first fountain pen by connecting his pen to a barrel of ink with a rubber hose. He saved large amounts of ink by not crossing his “t’s” or dotting his “i’s.” Bunyan paid him $30 a month for his work.
