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Very Old Iron 

 Snuffers and Scissors 



OLD WEST SURREY 



used as in former days. Just such a 

 cage, with a magpie in it, appears in one 

 of the pictures in ' Dame Wiggins.' It 

 was hung outside the cottage porch or 

 under any projection, and, when brought 

 indoors, from a nail driven into one of 

 the thick oak joists that in the older 

 unceiled cottages helped so much to give 

 character to the rooms. Endless were 

 the uses of these joists, with stout 

 nails driven in to hold all manner of 

 things. Especially in the useful, roomy 

 back-kitchens, where the great brick oven 

 was, there were nails in the joists, from 

 which hung baskets, tools, beehives, 

 lanterns and all sorts of small tackle, 

 besides ropes of onions, hams, chaps and 

 so on. Everything so hung up could be 

 seen at a glance. 



The long-handled iron peel, for plac- 

 ing loaves in the oven and taking them 

 out, stood in some corner close to the 

 oven. 



Pipe-Cleaner, Brass Box-Iron and Stand 



