. Recollections of Auton house : a book for children . 38 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. leghorns, green veils, and old calashes that could be gatheredfrom the nursery-closet bandboxes, while wide lace collars andstiff little jiggers, made to fill out the mutton-legged sleeves ofour grandmothers dresses, were freely brought into silk bags, and mothers scissors and pincushion, were hungat the side, spectacles were put on nose, and old-fashioned mitsadorned the hands. To these were added wide pieces of different-colored morocco, laced up over the Old Buff, the family
. Recollections of Auton house : a book for children . 38 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. leghorns, green veils, and old calashes that could be gatheredfrom the nursery-closet bandboxes, while wide lace collars andstiff little jiggers, made to fill out the mutton-legged sleeves ofour grandmothers dresses, were freely brought into silk bags, and mothers scissors and pincushion, were hungat the side, spectacles were put on nose, and old-fashioned mitsadorned the hands. To these were added wide pieces of different-colored morocco, laced up over the Old Buff, the family horse (A. Auton), was now led out fromthe nursery-closet stable, where he had been browsing among themedicines and eating his provender of pounded soda-cracker, andsour sorrel pulled from the upper garden. He neighed, andwhinnied, and stamped his feet on the childrens toes, just like any MR. AXD MRS. JOHN HONZY. 39 grown-up horse in the city. He kept off imaginary flies with hisimpromptu tail, made from a bundle of green lily-stalks pulled fromthe same upper-garden. A pair of bits made of pine wood wereput in his mouth, and a string of jingly-jongly bells hung about hisneck. A large dinner-bell was now put aboard the chairs whichserved for a family wagon, and the Honzys were ready to kettles, toy pails, and other nursery utensils were freelybrought into use to hold the imaginary huckle-berries, and thusequipped the signal was given to commence the journey. Thehorse began to trot up and down. The sleigh-bells started theirjargon. The elder Honzys cried Wh
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