yick has given us a new diversion. aunt gwendolin gave him orders to make a particularly nice layer-cake for an afternoon "tea."

yick is quite proud of his cakes, and this day he wished to outdo anything he had previously done, so he made a layer cake, icing it with red and white trimmings. he delights to get a new recipe, or find some new way of decoration. the daily paper, which always in the end finds its way into the kitchen, had evidently attracted his attention. he saw in the advertisement pages a round box with an inscription on top. taking the box for a cake, he decorated his culinary effort in imitation of the picture. aunt gwendolin never saw it until it was carried in to the table, before all the finest ladies of the city, and this was what they all read, in three rows of red letters across the white icing:

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who says my people are not clever and original?