. The New England magazine . la didnt say that ! I have half a mind with my sword tomake you like one of those headlessghosts hanging yonder — those bodies ofBluebeards wives. This one is a realmilkmaids cloak. How brilliant theplaid, once, but how soft the colors now !And here is the other sex, a long, stern,black cloak ! Old Barebones, how cameyou here? Another relic of PlymouthRock fathers, perhaps ! And next therepresentative of another century, a long-tailed coat, with brass buttons ! Thosenarrow sleeves must have made the wear-ers hand and arm appear like a leg ofmutton. See how the insi
. The New England magazine . la didnt say that ! I have half a mind with my sword tomake you like one of those headlessghosts hanging yonder — those bodies ofBluebeards wives. This one is a realmilkmaids cloak. How brilliant theplaid, once, but how soft the colors now !And here is the other sex, a long, stern,black cloak ! Old Barebones, how cameyou here? Another relic of PlymouthRock fathers, perhaps ! And next therepresentative of another century, a long-tailed coat, with brass buttons ! Thosenarrow sleeves must have made the wear-ers hand and arm appear like a leg ofmutton. See how the inside is quiltedin six-pointed stars. ■ Old Dartmouth,this, you say? — a graduating coat, then !Well, he was a precocious young man,youngest in the class of one hundred,graduated from college and medicalschool, and then waited to be of age inorder to receive his degree. What can those old chests contain?I shiver to think of the grim horrors thatmay be revealed, such as the tragedy ofthe Mistletoe Bough tells of. No spring. lock, and — nothing but bundles. Butshade of Franklin, what is that? Kpumpkin hood ! How light! It mustbe stuffed with down. And is that IN AN OLD ATTIC. 103 another? Oh, a calash, to protectwithout crushing the puffs and rufflesof the hair and cap ! Here are pointed-toed sHppers of brownsilk with a rosette ; and a damask dress,— a whole wardrobe for any stately dame ! Wander with me in this wilderness ofchairs. Here are two armchairs withslanting backs, long legs andslender rounds. Set side byside, they look like two primancient maidens. This oneis almost big enough for say you call it FatherAbraham ? Well, one couldrest in his bosom very com-fortably. The other chairsbelong to a later day, whenpeoples backs had a curvein them. Those quilts over thatbeam tell of snug beds oncold winter nights. Thepatchwork is pretty, is itnot? Hit and miss,log cabin, andplain block squares ; ^here one the blues ofwhich are of just the same shade as isfound on
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