The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses, tending pigs — with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the ... - Page 197 by Washington Irving - 1864 - 528 pages Full view -
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