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made dresses of Alices size and only one shop where any
childrens patterns could be found- we bought a few hansome
little paintings on porcelain, five of them for 49 Th’ cheap-
Visited the large store for Dresden china- Plates and dishes
covered with dutchy figures, they are also the manufacturers
of the great variety of comic figures in china usually given to
children for christmas presents- Out of our cab window
Alice and Jep laughed at the misfortune of a policeman, running
around the corner after us, he slips and spreads himself upon
the street, chagrined to see Alice laughing at him- comes at
once to our cabman and threatens him for violating the ordinance
in carrying more than four persons in one horse carriage
so Jep and I go walking to find him a pair of shoes,
the same trouble again, none ready made. The shop windows
contain hansome samples, and each shop contains a few shoes,
but none thats wearable, how strange for so large a city.
Henry says I’ll “find it so nearly everywhere”-
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After a good deal of figuring back and forth between the
police and the Railway officials Henry has come to a settlement
about his lost trunk, receiving 70Th’, without any extra expense.
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We went into the old Catholic church- Found it quite
extensive, very high, large arches and immense columns, with
several fine paintings, the best of which was the “Ascension” by
Raphael about 12 x 15 ft, placed above the alter [sic]. Upon the
latter stood several immense silver candlesticks highly ornam-
ented by with figures and statuettes. A dozen or so of
devotees, were scattered through the body of the church upon
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