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OLD WEST SURREY 



about in as much of a circle as the position of the 



contrivance would allow. 



Among the smaller articles 

 of cottage equipment, hardly 

 of a size to be called furniture, 

 but allied to it in that they 

 were of oak joinery, were the 

 salt-box and the knife-box. 

 The salt-box huncr close to the 

 kitchen fire, both to keep the 

 salt dry and to be handy for 

 cooking. You may see it in 

 ' Dame Wiggins,' hanging on 

 its nail, just inside the opening 

 of the fireplace. It was hinged 

 with leather, because iron hinges 

 rust so badly near the damp- 

 attracting salt. 



The knife-box hung up- 

 right upon the wall ; its 

 panelled front is the lid, which 

 runs in a groove, and is drawn 

 straight up. It held the buck- 

 horn-handled knives when they 

 were cleaned. 



The knife-tray is the same 

 as the one commonly in use, 

 but the pleasure in simple 

 ornament of the older folk is 

 shown in the bolder shape of 



the heart-shaped opening for 



Baby-Runner .1 c 



the ringers. 



The wooden coffee-mill, also a smaller spice- grinder of 



