A >tA,N describing a Western hotel says—“ You can sit there and think that you wouldn’t be surprised to behold Cleopatra in her barge, with “ a bonnet oft her jib,” come sailing through the room on the placid bosom of an ocean of oxtail soup, and eating a pearl as big-aa a water melon.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4183, 17 August 1874, Page 2
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54Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4183, 17 August 1874, Page 2
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