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  • Kate and I took much pleasure in choosing our tea-poys; hers had a mandarin parading on the top, and mine a flight of birds and a pagoda; and we often used them afterward, for Miss Honora asked us to come to tea whenever we liked.

    --Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877, Deephaven

    January 28, 2010