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OLD WEST SURREY 



the same shape, of a hard, dark wood that looks almost 

 like lignum vitee, were in use in farmhouses, and, by the 

 showing of the illustrations in ' Dame Wiggins,' in cottages 



COFFEE-MlLL 



also, for one of them, as well as a coffee-pot, appears upon 



her mantel-shelf. 



This little book is throughout 

 of considerable antiquarian value, 

 showing as it does with great 

 fidelity the equipment of a cottage 

 in the earliest years of the nine- 

 teenth century. 



The ' cat,' made of two sets of 



turned spokes, to hold a plate of 



muffins or something that is to be 



kept hot, sat by the parlour fire. 



Whether its name was derived from its fireside place, or 



from its Avay of falling on its feet either way up, seems to 



be an open question. 



