. Recollections of Auton House .. . The lamb would baa, and Carla would bark, and T. Auton wouldscamper round the yard playing horse, and switching his im-promptu tail (made out of green lily-stalks, or of his own pocket-handkerchief), while the old rocking-horse grinned, and stared at his three friends with hisglass eye from off the pi-azza. On one of theseparty occasions above al-luded to, the supper-tablewas elaborately set. Thewindow-shutters in thebanqueting hall wereclosed. All things wereready for serving the best china and the cut-glass dishes stood in re-spectable positions
. Recollections of Auton House .. . The lamb would baa, and Carla would bark, and T. Auton wouldscamper round the yard playing horse, and switching his im-promptu tail (made out of green lily-stalks, or of his own pocket-handkerchief), while the old rocking-horse grinned, and stared at his three friends with hisglass eye from off the pi-azza. On one of theseparty occasions above al-luded to, the supper-tablewas elaborately set. Thewindow-shutters in thebanqueting hall wereclosed. All things wereready for serving the best china and the cut-glass dishes stood in re-spectable positions amidstthe family silver. Rosannah the cook had carefully brought in thejoggling jelly and the blubbering floating island. Our mother
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