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beam are suspended three metal rings used in "ye olden tyme" to 

 handle "ye huge Yule log." The broad mantel shelf of oak, banded 

 and ornamented with wrought iron, projecting two feet from side wall, 

 is eighteen inches through and eight feet from the floor, supported 

 by caryatides, and the motto across its face reads, "Sings the blackened 

 log a tune learned in some forgotten June." For either end of this 

 mantel shelf we had planned a complete set of ancient armor, but 

 compromised with a single specimen of the armorers' art guarding 

 the stairway. 



THE PORCH ROOM SOUTH AND WEST. 

 THE EAST VERANDA. 



Wide Range of Fire Dog. 



In Shore Rocks the field of the fire dog is wide, ranging from 

 twice the size of a Great Dane to that of the low pudgy dachshund, 

 and from ponderous black iron to lighter framed, gleaming brass and 



