. Recollections of Auton house : a book for children . he door commenced again the grand rounds: of therooms. On such oreat occasions the children were sent to bed before sup- o per was served, with the promise of their plate of k good things the next morning. These were brought to us before we quitted the warm blankets of THE MIDDLE CHAMBER. 55 the ark and the trundle-bed. In the middle of the plate usuallystood a tall whip, the bubbles of which, weary of standing up, hadquietly collapsed into a dried creamy film. About the whip weregrouped a yellow soft custard, a piece of trembling blanc-ma
. Recollections of Auton house : a book for children . he door commenced again the grand rounds: of therooms. On such oreat occasions the children were sent to bed before sup- o per was served, with the promise of their plate of k good things the next morning. These were brought to us before we quitted the warm blankets of THE MIDDLE CHAMBER. 55 the ark and the trundle-bed. In the middle of the plate usuallystood a tall whip, the bubbles of which, weary of standing up, hadquietly collapsed into a dried creamy film. About the whip weregrouped a yellow soft custard, a piece of trembling blanc-mange,specked with little particles of almond shells which lay in the im-mediate vicinity, one five-fingered piece of preserved ginger, thesyrup of which had run under the bottom of the whip-glass andstuck the same to the heap of raisins, two figs,one heart and round, oneglass of calfs-foot jelly, threeor four sentiments, withtells rolled up in them, andfour prunes. The prospect of these good things made us hail with de-every one of Mother •/. light Antons parties. Once, on acold December night when thethermometer was at zero, andthe carriage-wheels creaked on the snow, occurred quite an excitingevent. The back drawing-room fire-place was piled up with logs tomultiply the heat. There was neither gas nor furnace in thosedays, and people had to rely upon hickory wood and wax candlesfor bodily comfort. The great halls of houses were cold as Green-land. Everybodys back was goose-flesh, while everybodys facewas red-hot. That night in particular the wood was piled up, andits yellow glare shot out into every portion of the remember among the company a beautiful Southern lady who 56 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. wore a crimson velvet gown trimmed with white lace, and ownedlots of darkies. Suddenly there was a cry of fire ! The wood-work in the middle chamber, just above us, had ignited from theheat of the chimney below. There was an immediate commotionamong the f
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