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lounges and brackets and what-nots. The cabinet maker, there- 

 fore, claimed and had assigned to him a place. 



Another artisan who did not ply his trade in every town, but 

 whose services were still indispensable, was the stone cutter; 

 witli his chisels and mallets and apparatus for smoothing and 

 polishing our native marbles, in order that we might have white 

 jamb stones and hearth stones and door steps, and in some ex- 

 treme cases, flagging stones to the front gate ; in order, also, 

 that we might have on our hillsides, or on the plain, some sub- 

 stantial memorials of departed worth — some tablet, sufficiently 

 smooth and sufficiently white, to have engraven upon it a record 

 of what our hearts had cherished and our homes had lost. One 

 of tlie pleasures and wonders of my childish days was to stand 

 in the shop where good Dougherty, skilled in lettering and in 

 the art of making marble urns, plied his trade. 



Then there were the most obvious demands of the body for 

 clothing. And here again, in the fabled days, if they were 

 fabled, when good taste alone regulated the fashions, and when 

 a well-regulated love of beauty, which not the beautiful alone 

 share, but which is a gracious legacy innate in all to some ex- 

 tent, alone ruled in the sphere of ornament, it was found that 

 the tailor with his goose, and the seamstress with her needle, 

 could not supply every article of outward covering. We talk of 

 a homespun age ; and suppose we know what we are talking 

 about. But the truth is, there ne"<^er was such an age. Poets 

 tell us of a time, 



"When Adam delved and Eve span," 



but that was a long time ago ; and could we have been privi- 

 leged to look in upon that prototype of all simplicity — that 

 sample and specimen of a time which antedated so far the ex- 

 travagances and follies that have since appeared, we should 

 have seen something that indicated to us the distinction between 

 the trade of the tailor and that of a milliner. 



The men who made our hats and our shoes, too, especially in 

 these cold climates, must be admitted as representatives of 

 necessary callings. It is obvious, also, that in order to manage 

 our steeds, or sit comfortably upon their backs, or attach them 

 conveniently to our vehicles, we must have leather variously cut 

 and stitched. And, since leather in its crude state is unfit for 



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