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for a baby to wear - not that it is a very [underlined] fine
weave - It [underlined] is beautiful [underlined] and everyone raves about
it, and we all wonder how it was you were
able to pick out such good [underlined] lace. It's easy
for a man to be deceived about lace because
they have so little real knowledge of it that
they can easily be deceived and sold cheap
machine made lace. Do you remember
Dick told us when the midshipman were
taken on that European Cruise the Chaplain
on board warned them all not to buy lace at
Schalter unless they knew [underlined] what they were doing