Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 348
le, the wine-storespresent an array of skin-bottles, that looks quaintenough to unaccustomed eyes. Supported abovethe floor, upon heavy wooden frames, are hugeox-hides, perfectly distended with wine, arrangedround the walls, where a European wine-dealerwould place his casks ; while skins of goats… … SOME ORIENTAL WATER-BOTTLES. turn of the narrow, crowded streets. Yet nobodyis willing to dispense with their services ; and intimes of public calamity, the water-carriers are thevery last to discontinue their labors. Their doingso is deemed the most intense aggravation of theevil, especially…
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