Pattens
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An extra-sized umbrella was then handed in by Mr. Dodson, and a pair of
pattens
by Mr. Fogg, each of whom had prepared a most sympathising and melancholy face for the occasion.
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The umbrellas in the passage had been heaped into the little corner outside the back-parlour door; the bonnet and shawl of the landlady's servant had been removed from the bannisters; there were not more than two pairs of
pattens
on the street-door mat; and a kitchen candle, with a very long snuff, burned cheerfully on the ledge of the staircase window.
Meanwhile Mrs. Cluppins, with the combined assistance of Mrs. Bardell, Mrs. Sanders, Mr. Dodson, and Mr. Fogg, was hoisted into the witness-box; and when she was safely perched on the top step, Mrs. Bardell stood on the bottom one, with the pocket-handkerchief and
pattens
in one hand, and a glass bottle that might hold about a quarter of a pint of smelling-salts in the other, ready for any emergency.
In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of
pattens
and splashing of rain-drops were the only sounds to be heard.
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