Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . CENTRE TABLET,. TABLET ON THE RIGHT. 174 MOUNT VERNON and is eating a turnip, wliile a pig is coming out of a ricketysty near by. The fireplace is an enormous iron grate, capable of contain-ing several bushels of coal; and the hearth is of white marble,inlaid with ornaments of polished maroon-colored marble, orencaustic tile. Upon the shelf are two small dark-blue vases,covered with flowers, delicately painted; and between theseare two bronze candelabra. The whole present a most pleas-ing picture to the eye; and the in
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . CENTRE TABLET,. TABLET ON THE RIGHT. 174 MOUNT VERNON and is eating a turnip, wliile a pig is coming out of a ricketysty near by. The fireplace is an enormous iron grate, capable of contain-ing several bushels of coal; and the hearth is of white marble,inlaid with ornaments of polished maroon-colored marble, orencaustic tile. Upon the shelf are two small dark-blue vases,covered with flowers, delicately painted; and between theseare two bronze candelabra. The whole present a most pleas-ing picture to the eye; and the interest is increased by theassociations which cluster around these objects, for they werethere sixty years ago, when Washington received his guests inthe spacious drawing-room, of which that chimney-piece is thegreatest ornament.
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