Paris herself again in 1878-9 . umps weighing a kilogramme each, or in theforms—such forms !—of horses, camels, donkeys, and humanbeings, either plain or garnished with almonds. Gingerbread isgingerbread all the world over, and that at the Paris Foire auPain dEpices needs no special description on my part; but I maymention that the gingerbread fairings at theBarriere du Trone arenever gilt. They are business exhibits of gingerbread, and aremade to be eaten. Piegarding the quality of the article I amtolerably well satisfied. I brought away a kilogramme or two forfriends in England, and I likewi
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . umps weighing a kilogramme each, or in theforms—such forms !—of horses, camels, donkeys, and humanbeings, either plain or garnished with almonds. Gingerbread isgingerbread all the world over, and that at the Paris Foire auPain dEpices needs no special description on my part; but I maymention that the gingerbread fairings at theBarriere du Trone arenever gilt. They are business exhibits of gingerbread, and aremade to be eaten. Piegarding the quality of the article I amtolerably well satisfied. I brought away a kilogramme or two forfriends in England, and I likewise purchased a gingerbread horse GINGERBREAD FAIR. 321 for the benefit of a juvenile acquaintance of mine in the PassageJouffroy. The animal, I regret to say, soon began to exhibit,owing to the warmth of my hand, symptoms of disintegration, andI was constrained to eat his off hind-leg and a portion of his tailbefore I reached the Boulevard Poissonniere: otherwise they wouldhave fallen off bodily, and would have been
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