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and breaking my finger nails!

The woman is Scotch and has a good brogue. She invited me to dinner and helped me up stairs. She is "painfully neat", but I guess she thinks I am too, for to-day I scrubbed my "second-hand" furniture with a vengeance, and between us we painted one chair black enamel. I got a good bureau with a beveled glass, a commode and two chairs to match, a huge library table with two drawers [[image]] - solid mahogany, walnut or something, an arm chair (the one we painted) [[image]] two other cane-seated ones, a large rattan bookcase, a kitchen high stool, an earthen slop jar, bowl