Bilderkin: That table is altogether too rickety. Why, it creaks if you put your hand on it. Shopkeeper: Well, that's all the style, sir. It's built *hat way on purpose. You can't read an account of fashionable dinner-parties without noticing how "the table groaned under the weight of the delicacies." Why, in the regular way of business we ought to charge a sovee'rign extra for them kind of tables.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 219, 24 December 1910, Page 8
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69Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 219, 24 December 1910, Page 8
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