OLD FURNITURE 



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From the older farms and small houses of well-to-do 

 people there remain some of the oak desks and Bible-boxes, 

 the latter generally ornamented with carving. Standing desks 

 on their own legs are also sometimes met with. 



The seats of our earliest cottage folk were no doubt boards 

 with rough legs knocked into holes, exactly like the farm 



Old Rail-Back and Ordinary Modern Windsor Chairs 



hog-form (see p. 242) ; a low bench, on which the killed pig 

 is scraped to remove the hair after being scalded, and, still 

 later, cut up by the butcher. Another simple seat of the 

 earliest type survives in the three-legged milking- stool, and 

 a taller four-legged seat made in the same manner. This 

 was retined into the joint stool, already described. 



Some of the earliest chairs were of good joiner's work in 

 oak, with high carved backs and ponderous arms. These 



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