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Chopsticks

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Chopsticks

Popular children's composition (anonymous) played on the piano with the forefingers of each hand, to which the name refers by analogy with the two sticks with which the Chinese eat their food.



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You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks, as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me.
What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting-needles, she showed in the firelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by the radiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of her net by and by.
 
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