Now you do the same thing. Get your measurements correct and be careful to make the lines perfectly straight. Before putting the kitchen together, fasten the rustic brackets, cut from a branching twig ([Fig. 209]), on the wall above the mantel-piece to support the flintlock gun. Take two stitches through the wall around each twig, as shown in [Fig. 210], at the dots A and A and B and B ([Fig. 207]).
Fig. [208].—Interior of fireplace.
Every colonial fireplace boasted of
A Strong Crane
upon which to hang the pots and kettles over the fire. One end of the crane was bent down and attached to the side chimney wall by iron rings. These rings allowed the crane to turn so that the extending iron rod could be swung forward to receive the hanging cooking utensils and then pushed back, carrying the pot and kettles over the fire for the contents to cook. The crane was black and of iron. A hair-pin ([Fig. 211]) makes a fine crane. Bend yours, as shown in [Fig. 212], then with two socket-rings made with stitches of black darning-cotton fasten the crane to the side of the chimney at the dots C and C ([Fig. 207]), and tie a piece of the darning-cotton on the little crane immediately below the lower socket-ring; bring the thread diagonally across to the top arm of the crane an inch and a quarter from the free end and again tie it securely ([Fig. 213]).
| Fig. [209].—A forked twig for the bracket. | Fig. [210].—Put the brackets up in this way. | Fig. [211].—The crane is made of a hair-pin. |
Fig. [212].—The crane.
Bend the two sides of