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LADIES * IilFE IN SHETLAND. 167
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You Want To Know How We Ladies Manage To...
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anemones p and this was long before it became , a fashion , to bring * don cold ' , t slimy , that , water I should creatures care into for that elegant much drawin but g th rooms is . I young
Shetland say lady was never tired of wandering- about , on the shore , with marine a little beings pail ; and in her many hand an , p hour icking she up spent all m in anner watching of strange and
tending her treasures . She has given up those pursuits now , wh for days ich u of her no her littl city m e promenade ones aiden at leisure home could , " a g hav ive ramble e her given enoug by to the h this to sea lover do ; had but of nature charms weeds in the .
which shells I hav , they or e corals often have , shown seen gathered most in the by beautifu acquisition ladies l in collec Shetland of tions these ; things of and sea the proved zeal , that the interest awaked was lasting and intense .
desirous Perhap of s you having have a been modest reading little Hug collection h Miller of , mineralog and you ical are
it specimens would afford . Some great very rar amus e ones ement * are searchin found g in for Shetland themthoug , and h
you ( with would a hammer sometimes you ) in h your ave to cause enlis . t your , The broth serpentine er , or male is found , cousin in ,
paper some cut out islands wei of g that hts , in rock small great The tables abundance sawing , and and even , - and olishing handles I have for of seen this fruit beau exquisite knives tiful ,
stone forms the chi . ef amusement of the p proprietor of an island where it abounds in considerable quantities , and of the finest
kind . / Botany , too , is a study which researches a lady may in follow that line with will much be
rewarded _siiccess in by Shetland the discovery , and of her much that is valuable and interesting . No warning to trespassers will be met to deter the rambling
fern feminine botanist s and from brain fairy wandering with wild learned flowers where . names Nor she do ( will unles you in s require search you' are to of like fill graceful your that
most all womanl disagreeable person lishments , Minerva but , not must satisfied add to with them possessing those of
withou the other flowers t the y sex hel accomp and p as of ferns well unpronounceable ) shells . You , and can sea words enjoy weeds , Nature and quite you ' s as will treasures much prize as
your if yon had waded , throug , h innumerabl , e nomenclators , . *• Instance , hydrate of magnesia , and others ,
Ladies * Iilfe In Shetland. 167
LADIES * IilFE IN SHETLAND . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/23/
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