Word: handkerchiefs
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...prove to you how unhealthy it is, I want to show you something papa taught me. Light your cigarette, - it's the only one I'll ever give you leave to light, - and fill your mouth with smoke. That's right. Now put down your cigarette and take your handkerchief...
...took out of my pocket a beautiful brown silk handkerchief, which I displayed with pride...
...There,' said she, 'you've lost all that smoke. Put up your handkerchief; we will take mine. Now fill your mouth again...
...obeyed directions, and put my stub carefully on my knee. Then she covered my mouth with her handkerchief, and bade me blow the smoke through it, which I did, leaving that brown spot you see there...
...would not agree to it. I said that I did n't have muslin sieves in my lungs to catch nicotine, that the fact that enough was left to color the handkerchief showed - But what was the matter with my foot? There was a stinging, burning pain on one side...