Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 212
nction to the simple roof. It is very instructive to find how things whichseem to us the merest commonplaces, and which appearas if they must always have existed, are really theresult of long centuries of slow growth. Though tous a chimney seems a necessary adjunct to a house,,it does not appear in… … OI,I I SISM-.X COTTAIIK THE STRUCTURE 109 the fire in the centre of the floor and allow the smoketo escape as best it could. Of course, the ordinaryfuel was wood, and wood smoke, though pungent,is not so dense as that of the modern coal fire. Still,there could be little of either cleanliness or…
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