text:  On their first arrival at Lima and adoption of this coffeehouse as a place of resort the tables and chairs belonging to it seemed in a fair way to be cut to pieces by these indefatigable whittlers; but the coffeehouse keeper had hit upon a plan to avoid such deterioration of his chattels and had placed in every corner of the rooms bundles of sticks at which his Yankee customers cut and notched till the coffeehouse assumed the appearance of a carpenter's shop