After various experiments I succeeded in making ink, by boiling white maple bark, and with a feather plucked from the wing of a duck, manufactured a pen.

经过各种实验， 我成功地制造了墨水， 通过煮沸白枫树皮，并用从鸭子翅膀上拔下的羽毛制成了一支钢笔。