12 HOME AND GARDEN 



time to time many of the materials come into use, 

 while the rest are for the pleasure of turning over 

 myself and for showing to friends of like tastes. Then 

 there are linen wrappers enclosing piles of silk, linen, 

 and cotton fabrics, and about it all is the comfortable 

 feeling that everything in the big cupboards is kept 

 clean and safe and easily accessible. 



One shorter length of cupboard holds a collection 

 of objects mostly local, many of them now out of use. 

 Here are a number of the brass " face-pieces " of 

 waggon harness, the pride of the smart carter, and 

 still in use; and the now obsolete ear-bells, dangling 

 two on each side from a strap that passed over the 

 horses' heads just behind the ears and buckled into 

 the cheeks of the head-stall. The middle of the strap 

 was further decorated by a brush-shaped three-tiered 

 plume of coloured horse-hair rising from a smart brass 

 socket. And there are the bright rosettes of coloured 

 worsted braid also for dressing up the waggon-team 

 on market days. Among the varied contents of this 

 cupboard are trophies of brass snuffers and brass spoons 

 and pepper-pots, wooden harvest bottles, tinder boxes 

 and some of the earliest flat sulphur matches, and 

 cocoa-nuts carved by sailors ; a shepherd's crook of 

 fine old pattern, and many forms of the old rush-light 

 holders. 



The space of the gallery is not encumbered with 

 furniture, but has one long oak table of a fine simple 

 type, oak linen chests (locally " hutches "), and a chair 



