Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 186
ly alike,—copies,as it were, of one picture, with the same generallines and colors. These beautiful veneers are often glued on tothe common woods of which furniture is usuallymade; but such sham-work is neither honest nordurable, and it would be much better to make expensive furniture of real,… … their life in the great tropical forests, wheremonkeys and gorgeous birds played in theirbranches, and alligators, lions and elephants livedat their feet; of their death when half-nakedsavages cut them down ; of their burial in the holdof ships to be brought to a great city; of theirbeing cut up…
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