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He cheats in everything, and cheats everybody. Thar's not an old woman in the country that don't say her prayers back'ards when she thinks of Jared Bunce. Thar's his tin-wares and his wood-wares his coffeepots and kettles, all put together with saft sodder that jest go to pieces, as ef they had nothing else to do. He's been at this business, in these diggings, now about three years.
Silver teapots, coffeepots, sugar-basins, cream-jugs, fruit-dishes, silver-gilt inkstands, albums, photograph-books, little candlesticks, choice little services of china, shell salt-cellars in a case lined with maroon velvet; a Bible, superb in binding and clasps, and everything but the text that was illegible; a silk scarf from Benares; a gold chain from Delhi, six feet long or nearly; a Maltese necklace, a ditto in exquisite filagree from Genoa; English brooches, a trifle too big and brainless; apostle spoons; a treble-lined parasol with ivory stick and handle; an ivory card-case, richly carved; workbox of sandal-wood and ivory, etc.
The cupboard and the kitchen would no longer be a secure place of deposit for articles so valuable as golden bowls and coffeepots. Amid these thoughts he lifted a spoonful of coffee to his lips, and sipping it, was astonished to perceive that the instant his lips touched the liquid it became molten gold, and the next moment hardened into a lump. "Ha!" exclaimed Midas, rather aghast.
Patented coffeepots on this principle can be purchased at most house-furnishing stores. Make more coffee than usual at breakfast time and stronger. When cold put on ice. Serve with cracked ice in each tumbler. Beat the white of an egg, put to it a small lump of butter and pour the coffee into it gradually, stirring it so that it will not curdle.
By the by, Sir John Hope had found a Roman eagle on his estate in Fife with sundry of those pots and coffeepots, so to speak, which are so common: but the eagle was mislaid, so I did not see it. February 3. I corrected proofs and wrote this morning, but slowly, heavily, lazily. There was a mist on my mind which my exertions could not dispel.
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