Some have speculated the recipes either derived from other Eastern European shortbread cookies, may have migrated to Mexico with European nuns, or may have been associated with cookies served beside Russian samovars ( tea urns ).
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The tea urn, however, is empty, save for a card on which is written the book's last word : " Farewell " . ( In the last picture, the three stand facing a setting sun .)
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Spencer did not depict heroism and sacrifice, but rather in panels such as " Scrubbing the Floor ", " Bedmaking ", " Filling Tea Urns " and " Sorting and Moving Kit Bags ", the unremarkable everyday facts of daily life in camp or hospital and a sense of human companionship rarely found in civilian life as he remembered events from Beaufort, Macedonia and Tweseldown Camp.
