"'Please, ma'am, said she, 'I read in the Young Woman's Vademecum of Instructive Information, page 150, that there was nothing in the world so strengthening and wholesome as dissolved bones, and ivory- dust; and so, ma'am, I always make a point of throwing in a few knives into every soup I have the charge of, for the sake of the handles ivory-handles for white soups, ma'am, and black-handles for the browns!"
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