. Recollections of Auton House .. . -gundy pitch to spread on plasters for the smalls of backs, andthe old case-knife to spread it on with lying beside the cup. Thencame lint and bees-wax, and balsam ofTolu, and dry mag-nesia in square bot-tles, for heart-burn,and ever so manymore frightful nos-trums. It is a causefor thanksgiving thatwe survived all these lions in our path. On the left side ofthis closet lay thesweet herbs brought to us every year by old Miss Burden andNancy Speywood. There was the aromatic catnip, and the coolingbalm, the sweet everlasting, and the bitter chamomile. I shalln
. Recollections of Auton House .. . -gundy pitch to spread on plasters for the smalls of backs, andthe old case-knife to spread it on with lying beside the cup. Thencame lint and bees-wax, and balsam ofTolu, and dry mag-nesia in square bot-tles, for heart-burn,and ever so manymore frightful nos-trums. It is a causefor thanksgiving thatwe survived all these lions in our path. On the left side ofthis closet lay thesweet herbs brought to us every year by old Miss Burden andNancy Speywood. There was the aromatic catnip, and the coolingbalm, the sweet everlasting, and the bitter chamomile. I shallnever forget the refreshment which Debrahs cold balm-tea, pouredfrom a broken-nosed teapot, gave to our parched throats, after theDoctor had forbidden us to touch cold water, during fever attacks. These fragrant bundles of natures perfumery were piled, oneabove another, on the upper shelves of the old closet, in clean, white,cotton bags; and they served as agreeable foils to counteract thedeadly characteristics of the opposite 26 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. Among all this scented herbage we passed many a fleeting Auton (boy), beautiful as the day, with chestnut curls and rosy,pouting lips, would climb to the top shelf, flageolet in hand, andburied there in this fragrant retreat would discourse long repeti-tions of Lord dismiss us and Auld lan«r Svne, in order to CJ «/ drown the squeals of the younger children and the fat girls ofthe family, who, acting out the play of market, were makingbelieve being butchered for Christmas, and cut up into joints bythe older boys. CHAPTER THIRD. AUTON ARK AND THE JOLLY-BOAT. OAHS ark and the jolly - boat, bywhich I mean the big four-poster andthe trundle-bed underneath it, havesheltered more square yards of chil-dren within their wide, straddlingsides than any other two private bedsin New England. To enter the ark we needed a chair,to board the jolly-boat we had onlyto tumble in. The trundle-bed wasshoved under th
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