Composing stick

Okay kiddo, let me explain to you what a composing stick is. Have you ever seen a puzzle where you have to put the pieces together to make a picture? A composing stick is kind of like that, but instead of putting together a picture, we put together words and sentences.

A composing stick is a tool that is used by people who print words on paper. It looks like a long, skinny box with little metal pieces inside. The metal pieces are called type, and they look like tiny letters and symbols that fit together like a puzzle.

When we want to make a document, we choose the type we need and put them together inside the composing stick. We arrange the type in the same order as the words in the sentence we want to print. Once we put all the words together, we can print them on paper.

Composing sticks were used a long time ago before computers were invented. People would spend a lot of time putting together the type by hand, but now we have computers that do it for us.

So, in summary, a composing stick is a tool that printers use to put together letters and symbols to make words and sentences. It's kind of like a puzzle, but instead of a picture, we create written documents.