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America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat

CHAPTER 10
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On the following Monday she complained of her nose being sore.

Next day she again complained and said, "It must be the hatpin." While talking to Mrs.Pickford, she explained, Mrs.
Pickford's baby stumbled on the footpath.

They both stooped to pick it up, and a hatpin in Mrs.Pickford's hat caught her in the nostril.
His daughter gradually got worse and died on Saturday last.

Mrs.
Pickford, wife of a paper merchant, said that some minutes after the deceased had picked up the child she said, "Do you know, I scratched my nose on your hatpin ?" Mrs.Pickford was wearing the hatpin in court.

It projected two inches from the hat and was about twelve inches in length.


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