A PRECIOUS EGG-SHELL.
An American lady possesses an extraordinary relic of a great novelist. Mark Twain speaks of the lady who treasures a precious slice of bread from which Dido ns had taken a. bite. This sounds like the broadest burlesque, but the following anecdote shows that I wain was hardly burlesquing in his essay : —The last time that Dickens was in Ameiica be happened one morning to bieakfast at the common table of the hotel where he was stopping. When he had eaten his ogg he dropped the empty shell into his egg-cup,aud after finishing bis breakfast left the table. As soon as he had gone, a lady who had sat next to him arose, and, taking up the egg-cup, went to the hotel proprietor and i fl'eied to purchase it of him at any price. He agreed to sell it, and the unwashed egg-cup containing the broken shell is now kept by her as i memorial of the great novelist.
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2
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162A PRECIOUS EGG-SHELL. Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2
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