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"There ain't no carpets in the house except in Grandma Cobb's room, and that's jest straw mattin'; and there's some plain mats without no roses on 'em; and there ain't no stove 'cept in the kitchen; just old andirons like mother keeps up garret; and there ain't no stuffed furniture at all; and they was eatin' supper without no table-cloth." Amelia Powers and Mrs.
However, I found a bed not occupied by anyone else, but of my bedding there was not a sign. So I stretched out on the petate of my bed, only to wake up later shivering with cold, which I tried to remedy by fishing around for cover in a pile of straw mats, from which I extracted what turned out in the morning to be a jusi table-cloth, through which you could have shot straws.
Clean the leather with a weak solution of oxalic acid, washing it off immediately, and when dry apply the composition with a sponge. After using a table-cloth, lay it in the same folds; put it in a close place where dust will not reach it, and lay a heavy weight upon it. Napkins may be used the second time, if they are so marked that each person gets the napkin previously used.
What was all this though even all this to the extraordinary dissipation that ensued, when Kit, walking into an oyster-shop as bold as if he lived there, and not so much as looking at the counter or the man behind it, led his party into a box a private box, fitted up with red curtains, white table-cloth, and cruet-stand complete and ordered a fierce gentleman with whiskers, who acted as waiter and called him, him Christopher Nubbles, 'sir, to bring three dozen of his largest-sized oysters, and to look sharp about it!
The painter, who had by wry faces testified his abhorrence of the sow's stomach, which he compared to a bagpipe, and the snails which had undergone purgation, he no sooner heard him mention the roasted pullets, than he eagerly solicited a wing of the fowl; upon which the doctor desired he would take the trouble of cutting them up, and accordingly sent them round, while Pallet tucked the table-cloth under his chin, and brandished his knife and fork with singular address: but scarce were they set down before him, when the tears ran down his cheeks; and he called aloud, in a manifest disorder, "Zounds! this is the essence of a whole bed of garlic!"
In warm weather the old shop served as kitchen, and Sylvia, in deference to the high-school teacher, used to set the table in the house. When Henry neared the house he smelled cooking in the shop. He also had a glimpse of a snowy table-cloth in the kitchen.
He got out all the towels and table-cloths, and, made up the bed with table-cloths, the first night, and in the morning the visitor kicked because there was a big coffee stain on the table-cloth sheet. You know that tablecloth you spilled the coffee on last spring, when Pa scared you by having his whiskers cut off. O, they raised thunder around the room.
'Waiter, said he, 'pen and ink, and the waiter brought pen and ink. 'Not to-day, said Jabesh, wiping his mouth with the table-cloth. 'Not to-day, Mr. Tudor I really haven't time to go into it to- day and I haven't brought the other bills with me; I quite forgot to bring the other bills with me, and I can do nothing without them, and Mr. M'Ruen got up to go. But this was too much for Charley.
This room was below the dining-room. All consented to this. Each one went down, taking a napkin. The cook laid the kitchen table, put on it her best table-cloth, and the family sat down. Amanda went to the dumb-waiter for the dinner, but she could not move it down. The family were all in dismay.
The table-cloth, if of white damask, should be perfectly ironed, with one long fold down the middle, which must serve the butler for his mathematical centre. No one can be astray in using fine white damask. If a lady wishes to have the more rare Russian embroidery, the gold embroidered on the open-work table-cloth, she can do so, but let her not put any cloth on her table that will not wash.
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