FURNITURE
OF
THE OLDEN TIME

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.”

FURNITUREOFTHE OLDEN TIME

FURNITURE
OF
THE OLDEN TIME