COTTAGE FURNITURE 



To complete this discursion on cottages, some or us 

 visited the other day a tiny house, where all the down- 

 stairs rooms, except the kitchen, had 

 been thrown together, making a 

 charming, long, low living-room with 

 one great black beam across the 

 ceiling. On the walls was a perfect 

 cottage paper, with isolated pink 

 rose-buds well-distanced from each 

 other: a pink rosebud chintz and 

 black carpet dotted with faint stiff 

 roses, made quaint and unusual but 

 very satisfying arrangement. The 

 windows looked out on a pine wood 

 across a hedge of rampant pink 

 Dorothy Roses. Gazing out on 

 the dim, dark green grey aisles of 

 the fir trees one would want the 

 gay note within / and the little Rose- 

 strewn paper was perfection. 



Yesterday the Grandfather of Loki 



dragged the Grandmother in her 



bath-chair out into the heart of the 



moors. It's a sporting bath-chair 



this. It has been over as much rough ground as a horse 



artillery gun-carriage, and nothing in the matter of obstacles 



stops it unless it is barbed wire / it was chosen as light in 



make as possible, and now it has a rakish, weather-beaten 



appearance, like an old mountain mule. 



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