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There is less variation in the design, and even in the 

 detail of these stools, than is to be seen in almost any 

 article of oak furniture. The one with the top and the 

 one without were from different parts of the district, but 

 show a remarkably close adherence to one pattern. 



The three-legged triangular table was in the tap-room of 

 a village inn. It is made of elm throughout. It is quite 



Elm Three-Legged Table 



small, but gives ample accommodation for three men sitting 

 round it, chatting over their mugs of beer. 



In nearly every cottage was to be found an oak dresser, 

 with shelves for crockery. The illustration shows an ordinary 

 example. In some of the larger dressers in farmhouses, the 

 sides that support the shelves are shaped in a sequence of 

 upward and outward- swinging curves, so that each ascending 

 shelf is wider than the one below it ; recalling the bracketed 



