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that go roaring up it in such splendid spendthrift 
fashion may warm the imagination, but they produce 
comparatively little effect upon the temperature of 
the room, and in these undegenerate days the open 
fireplace is often flanked by a modern cooking-stove 
that, however useful, is not at all ornamental. 
The interior of a cabin, needless to say, is as simple 
and oftentimes as picturesque as the outside. The 
great fireplace with its generous flames is the centre 
of attraction, and one may believe has something to 
do with the genial nature of the people reared about 
it. A large open fire expands the heart of man. The 
iron crane from which swing the pots, the circular 
"ovens" standing in the ashes, the red heart of the 
fire, the human forms played over by the flickering 
light, awaken strange emotions of a shadowy mem- 
ory from out some past existence. Next in import- 
ance to the fireplace are the beds, several of which 
often stand in one room, and even in the larger 
houses it is customary to find at least one bed in the 
parlor. 
Oftentimes a bench along the wall supplies seats 
at one side of the narrow table, and sometimes there 
is a bench on both sides, chairs being few, straight- 
backed, and narrow, for the furniture is generally 
home-made. Somewhere in a remote cove you will 
come across the man who makes the chairs, but who 
is always too busy doing something else to fill an 
order In less than a year. But what does that matter? 
In course of time and somehow the people get their 
chairs, strong, honest things made with special refer- 
