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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XVI.
and, as soon as registered, to be placed in goodly
company with the sister needle I have before alluded to.
Needles and pincettes, with a knife, are usually
discovered in the same locality. Decidedly, there is
nothing new under the sun. Only imagine my
astonishment at beholding a bronze ring, suspended to which
hang a pair of these same pincettes, together with one of
those nasty little foreign-looking spoons, inseparable from
every French and German etui, for cleaning out the
ears. Buttons we have in considerable variety : some of
bone, of a quatrefoil pattern, others of amber; heaps of
various forms in bronze; some also of gold, stud fashion,
like the tawdry Brummagem jewellery of modern times.
But I am forgetting the knives, of which there is a
large provision: they are rather small, with a bent
handle, and very rude in form. Others resemble those
of the present day, a little old-fashioned, and look as
though pulled out of the socket of their handles by that
most ruinous of all inventions, the knife-cleaning
machine. To some, rings are attached, evidently intended
to be worn from the girdle ; one has a pincette dangling
from the same ring, and a something else, chatelaine
fashion ; on some are engraved representations of ships,
such as the Vikings sailed in, with dragon prow (vide
tapestry of Bayeux); and on one, by the side of said
ship, swims a little fish, of whose ichthyological name
I am unable to inform you.
Of the ornaments worn by females, and perchance by
men also—for the latter are or were as fond of finery
as the softer sex—there is an extensive assortment:
bronze diadems, after the fashion of the goddess Juno,
or of those worn by the Russian Ambassadress at the
drawing-rooms in London; large and solid twisted rings
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