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Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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will be for the ears of the mouse,and are to be cut without allowingfor seams. In piece No. 1, you mustallow for a seam at the side markeda in the middle and b at each end.Fold the piece allowed for the seam,put the points b and b together, andsew from a to b, then from b to c.Then sew it together all round, mak-ing a small plait at every half inch,leaving a small space to fill it. Thenfill the body with wadding, shapingit like a mouse, and making theunderpart a little fiat so as to fastenthe mouse to the penwiper. Theears must be folded a little, as in thedotted line in No. 2 ; fasten them atthe places marked by a star in dia-gram No. 1, and by drawing thethread through the head from starto star, the hollow of the head isformed. Put a black bead for eyeson the places marked by a cross. Run somestiff thread through the snout, and crochet a / cord for the tail, and fasten the mouse on the pen-wiper, which is made of black and scarlet cloth. 600 GODEYS LADYS BOOK AND MAGAZINE BRAIDING P

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