An Old English Home

of oblong huts, but one seemed to have been occupied by more than one family, as it was divided into stalls, by great sla

rude, and no trace of glass could be found. These habitations bel

r all who are bound together by community of blood and interest, and this is still rec

ing taken the place of logs, the hearth has been reduced and the grate h

ll and has in it three fireplaces, so that simultaneously three fires could burn in the same room, an

m, so large were they, and not infrequently a ladder could be put up th

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ckness of the chimney, and without an opening to the light outside. Access to this chamber could, however, always be had by means of a hand-ladder placed when required in the chimney. This admitted through a door in the chimney to the receptacle for kegs-for that was the real purpose of the conceal

he chimney, and upon it stood an immense pair of iron dogs. Obeying Mrs. Abindon's directions, Garnet got upon the stone, and setting his foot on the large iron knob on the left, found a few projections in the masonry on the side, up which he mounted, and opening a small door made of planks of wood, covered with bricks and coloured black, so as

scent, also permitted descent, and many a

none, and who was a terror to the neighbourhood. He was wont during the night to visit well-to-do persons' houses within reach, get over the ro

lose had spiked contrivances of iron put into their chimneys, so that the burglar in descending at a rapid p

pack of foxhounds, when they made a set at the cave, and so it was discovered

ars ago. After that, the late Mr. Kelly blew up the cave with gunpowder, and its pla

as an indispensable feature. A wood fire requires constant attention, and it was his place to put the logs together as they burnt through; and he knew

was anoth

were hung. Above was a long narrow cupboard for the groceries. The seat lifted-for what think you? As a place where the baby could be placed in greatest security whilst the mo

man who had bought and built a fine house, very modern, but very handsome.

England of the date of Henry VIII. But they are all in an ancient mansion, a black-timbered hall in Cheshire or Shropsh

f, made up of bits from old churches, put together higgledy-piggledy without any unity of design-stuff that no ancient would have designed, for there was no design in it. And the dealer kept this Che

from my topic, I must have ano

on them, but fine in their lines and in their simplicity. These wretches buy them up and give them into the hands of mechanical carvers t

ese gentry; "you have utterly, irre

of the price hadn't I done this. The buyers

he hearth and

to be the back of a settle of Henry VII.'s reign. The mortices for the arms and for the seat were there; also nail marks showing that stamped leather had been fastened to th

ttle, it is constructed in an arc. In a farmhouse I know well are two such settles, and they are connected

e kitchen, and the circle is completed with chairs or stools, the curtains are drawn, the fire

small one. One of his daughters was there. She turned to her sister and said: "I say,

nds. You must have the right one beside y'; then i

e mat before the fire was the line of demarc

dmother, "fires are mad

ependent, to have a curved settle formed of burnished tin, and to sit before a roaring fire in the focus of all the

e worst is a smoky chimney, and among all the hideous

chimney shall not smoke, the flue must be made large enough to carry the smoke. This is a principle very generally neglected. Next it is necessary that the chimney sh

but would, on the contrary, assist it in rising. Or else they covered over the orifice with a roof, open at th

mply taken my pencil and gone outside my hous

of the family altar, and should contain the a

corated and enriched as this; and the hall

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orious old sculptured wood was ruthlessly torn down. If the reader is happy enough to possess a copy of Dr. Syntax's Tours, he will see the period of transition. In the second Tour is a plate representing the doctor visiting the Wido

emains, lined with Dutch tiles, and the fire is on dogs. All the lower portion of the mantel d

here again is a lovely panelled room with plaster ceiling

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drew; above the shelf is a painting in the worst description of frame. When Rowlandson made his drawings, he was absolutely incapable of appreciating Gothic design, and whenever he attemp