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ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND
"IN THE MATTER OF PERFUME IT WAS FINE"all day, so that in the mere matter of consumption twice as much of my aromatic illuminating air was used in a week as the companies had charged for under the old system, and we used the same metres, too. In addition to this, as a mere life-saving device, my invention proved to have a wonderful value. In the first place nobody could blow it out and be found gas-fixturated the next morning"
"Good word that—so much more expressive than the old privately owned
