But it
seems that orange wood is absolutely essential. A manicure lady
could no more do a manicure properly without using an orange wood
stobber at certain periods than a cartoonist could draw a picture
of a man in jail without putting a ball and chain on him or a
summer resort could get along without a Lover's Leap within easy
walking distance of the hotel. It simply isn't done, that's all.
Well, as I was saying, she gets out her tool kit and goes to work
on you. You didn't dream that there were so many things--mainly
of a painful nature--that could be done to a single finger nail and
you flinch as you suddenly remember that you have ten of them in
all, counting thumbs in with fingers. She takes a finger nail in
hand and she files it and she trims it and she softens it with hot
water and hardens it with chemicals and parboils it a little while
and then she cuts off the hang nails--if there aren't any hang
nails there already she'll make a few--and she shears away enough
extra cuticle to cover quite a good-sized little boy.
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