Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 258
1760-1770. mother-of-pearl shades, copied from the originalpearl counters, which still lie in the little oval pools hollowed out for them in the mahogany frame.The fashionable gameat that date was qua-drille, which was playedwith these round andfish-shaped counters. Dr. William SamuelJohnson, the… … Tables ^33 other gave it up with her life. The same younggirls embroidered the screen in Illustration 257.Small wonder they died young ! Far better the
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