Furniture of the Olden Time

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
—Illustration can be relocated if necessary for project’s graphic needings.

FURNITURE OF THE OLDEN TIME

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO

BY FRANCES CLARY MORSE
NEW EDITION With a New Chapter and Many New Illustrations
“ How much more agreeable it is to sit in the midst of old furniture like Minott’s clock, and secretary and looking-glass, which have come down from other generations, than amid that which was just brought from the cabinet-maker’s, smelling of varnish, like a coffin! To sit under the face of an old clock that has been ticking one hundred and fifty years—there is something mortal, not to say immortal, about it; a clock that begun to tick when Massachusetts was a province. ”
H. D. Thoreau, “Autumn.”