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It was of a piece with the deep green "flock" wall paper, and the tea-urn, and the rocking-chairs with their antimacassars, and the harmonium in rosewood with a Chinese paper-mache tea-caddy on the top of it; even with the carpet, certainly the most curious parlour carpet that ever was, being made of lengths of the stair-carpet sewn together side by side.
"That only comes when nobody wishes to part with money," said Couture. "In short, there was no competition in investments," continued Bixiou. "Paper-mache manufacturers, cotton printers, zinc-rollers, theatres, and newspapers as yet did not hurl themselves like hunting dogs upon their quarry the expiring shareholder.
"Bullitt-Bartlett bartlett pears full of small 22 or 33 calibre bullets. "Tweed-Ellis" frosted cake in the shape of Ellis Island with a solitary figure of a man in a nice fitting tweed suit. "Gordon-Fuller" two paper-mache figures one representing a young man full of Gordon gin, the other representing a young man fuller.
One of the most favored methods of announcing an engagement is by the use of symbolic figures embodying the names of the affianced pair. Thus, for example, in the case of the present engagement of Richard Roe to Dorothy Doe it would be "unique" to have the first course at luncheon consist of a diminutive candy or paper-mache doe seated amorously upon a heart shaped order of a shad roe.
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