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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
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.”
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1926 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1902 and 1917, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped November, 1902. Reprinted April, 1903; July, 1905; February, 1908; September, 1910; September, 1913.
New edition, with a new chapter and new illustrations, December, 1917.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To my Sister ALICE MORSE EARLE