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Updated: May 18, 2025
"When I talk business," said Emma McChesney, pausing at the threshold, "I want to be surrounded by a business atmosphere. I want the scene all set one practical desk, two practical chairs, one telephone, one letter-basket, one self-filling fountain-pen, et cetera.
Two undershirts, balbriggan or woollen. Three pairs of woollen socks. Two linen handkerchiefs, large enough, if needed, to tie around the throat and protect the back of the neck. One pair of pajamas, woollen, not linen. One housewife. Two briarwood pipes. Six bags of smoking tobacco; Durham or Seal of North Carolina pack easily. One pad of writing paper. One fountain pen, self-filling.
"It's quite hard," said Peter, unreasonably disappointed in it. "Oh, yes, rather; I'll come." How short the time for doing things had suddenly become. Urquhart remarked, looking at the carpet, "What a revolting mess. Why?" "My self-filling bath," Peter explained. "I invented it myself. Well it did fill itself. Quite suddenly and all at once, you know. It was a very beautiful sight.
There is always water beneath the surface, and natives in bands of twenty occupy themselves in searching for the precious stones, digging holes that serve besides as self-filling basins in which the gravel is panned. The government does not work the fields.
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