Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850- · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 286
e roomjust enough light by which to accomplish thesimple tasks which had to be performed afternightfall. Even this rude means of lighting was not avail-able in some homes, for it is not uncommon toread in old chronicles of lessons being learned bythe light of the fire only. While such a state… … Plate LXXXVII. — Whale Oil Lamps with Wicks ; MantelLamps, 1815 ; Paul and Virginia Candelabra. OLD-TIME LIGHTS shutters, and against the brown walls, much tothe delight of the little ones, who, seated on rudebenches close at hand, threw hickory shavings intothe fire to make it flame faster, or…
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