Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 278
et a few copper coins, worth about one tenthof a cent apiece, wherewith to buy candy. The stock in trade of this popular trades-man usually consists of a quantity of soft mo-lasses candy. A lump of this is fastened tothe end of a thin bamboo tube, and then heproceeds to blow into it very much after… … MISS BAMBOO CARRIES MASTER BEAR AND MASTER PINE-TREE. to order. I have often amused myself, at anoutlay of ten cents, by treating a crowd of tenor twenty children that had gathered aroundone of these candy men. Nothing could be 8io GLIMPSES OF CHILD LIFE IN JAPAN. funnier than the critical attitude…
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