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For instance, the embroidered band a Chinese girl wears as soon as she is old enough not to have her hair shaved in front Nelly called a 'hair-belt, and the curved, flat ornament sticking out behind An Ching's head she christened 'head-protector. Nelly was not quite sure that it was good English to invent names, but she said to herself, 'The Chinese call a tea-cosy "a tea-pot's hat" and a sewing machine "an iron tailor." Greatly to Nelly's surprise and sorrow, there were times when she could not remember the names of things in English.
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A tea-pot's hum shall soothe my ear, A widowy girl, that likes me still, With many a smile shall linger near. I have been asked to write a philosophical minute on the mental and moral condition of delightful Mrs. Lollipop's husband, who lives down in the plains.
I cannot pretend to give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs thus: 'Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way is a genius O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! what is this world coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses! A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis.
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