Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 131
-frames, and other dainty devices,and we go out, scissors in hand, with all the confi-dence with which we enter a shop to order what iswanted. No initiated person, however, will evercut the wood recklessly ; that would be killing thegolden goose indeed. No, the pieces chosen, whichare from three to… … table-mats, floor-mats, wall-shields, screens, brush-and-comb bags, skate-bags, and school-satchels,can be made of gray crash, with fancy bits of col-ored cloth laid on and neatly secured around theedge by herring-bone stitch. Canvas may be thus inlaid with bright velvets, and the interveningspaces…
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