. Recollections of Auton House . , imploring us to cease theracket. Such a babel brought its usual quietus in the forms ofMother and Father Auton, who appeared at the nursery door andcommanded silence, —you might hear a pin drop in an instant. This interruption was lucky, because the party had just arrivedat the berrying ground, and were already engaged in picking thelargest specimens from all sides of the room. The pails were filledin no time, and the family were at home again in a squeezed the kitten in the wrong place, which causedthe neighbors child to squall, leap from
. Recollections of Auton House . , imploring us to cease theracket. Such a babel brought its usual quietus in the forms ofMother and Father Auton, who appeared at the nursery door andcommanded silence, —you might hear a pin drop in an instant. This interruption was lucky, because the party had just arrivedat the berrying ground, and were already engaged in picking thelargest specimens from all sides of the room. The pails were filledin no time, and the family were at home again in a squeezed the kitten in the wrong place, which causedthe neighbors child to squall, leap from the flying vehicle, and rushunder the trundle-bed with H. Autons night-cap on, and its long, 40 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. black apron petticoat, half off, dragging behind it. The cots and the • bandages were flung to the four winds. The old toggerywas dropped on the floor for Debrah to pick up, while Mr. and lost their assumed authority at once, and mixed with demo-cratic familiarity among their Auton CHAPTER FIFTH. ROOMS IN AUTON HOUSE. TRANGE to tell, Anton House had but onebedroom. There were lots of other rooms,such as the Green-room and the Din-ing-room and the Back and Front Draw-ing rooms, and the Library, and the Middle chamber, and the White-room,and Mothers room, and the Baby-house, and Rosannahs room, and the boys room, and Frebuns room, andthe Glass-house, and the Nursery,but only one Bedroom. In this cham-ber all the strange new maids slept andgot up early. It was as cold as a barn, and had a fire-board infront of the fire-place with a painting upon it representing myfather and uncle when children, holding a steel-gray squirrel perchedon their hands, and attached to a small chain of the same gray colordans-liner over their finders. The boys wore lar^e ruffled collars O o O J O and roundabout jackets buttoned up to the throat, Avith their haircut short in front, leaving it long behind. In this room, also, wasa tall wicker basket which he
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