Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 248
covered with spines as sharp as need-les ! But, wait a moment. The leaves of the par-ticular kind of cactus so used are not very prickly,and, moreover, they are not carried about, but areleft growing on the plant, which stands at the footof the front steps. When a lady calls she has only to draw… … nsBHHKSM .■. _,> boon to ::-. the Kaf- I firs, who often, in most live on the prickly ,-ittle will greedily eat the rich, it simply revels in .o-leaf bristling with sharp oddest use of the cactus pre-i South Africa, where its leavesthe purpose of visiting-cards.Fancy carrying about in your…
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