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