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times they had two shallow drawers at the bottom, and 

 more often than not a fixed tray or shallow box, four to five 

 inches wide at one end of the top, running front and back 

 just under the lid for holding small articles, mending mate- 

 rial, and so on. 



Clothes hutches were much smaller and more simply 



Wiikel-Back. Windsor Chair 



made. The one shown is three feet three inches long and 

 less than a foot wide inside. This is a well-made hutch ; 

 often they are much ruder. The ends are stout boards with 

 a triangular piece sawn out of the lower end so as to leave 

 two legs. The sides and bottom are simply nailed on, and 

 the lid is hung on rough hinges. But it sufficed for the 

 labourer's one change of better clothes, and meanwhile made 

 a convenient scat. 



